Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82706 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2007:29
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper uses data from an Internet-based CV database to investigate how factors which may be used as a basis for discrimination, such as the searchers’ ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from firms. Since we have access to essentially the same information as the firms, we can handle the problems associated with nobserved heterogeneity better than most existing studies of discrimination. We find that, even when we control for other differences, searchers who have non-Nordic names, are old or unemployed receive significantly fewer contacts. Moreover, we find that this matters for the hiring outcome: Searchers who receive more contacts have a higher probability of actually getting hired.
Subjects: 
Job Search
Unobserved Heterogeneity
Discrimination
JEL: 
J64
J71
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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