Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20215 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 979
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit study methodology allows us to reduce the room for existence of statistical discrimination. The results suggest the existence of no significant differences in hiring rates for different gender-race groups but some systematic (and significant) differences in the aimed wages of the individuals in their job search processes.
Subjects: 
field experiments
discrimination
occupational segregation
JEL: 
C93
D63
J7
J4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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