Discrimination, Rejection, and Application Behaviour: Effects of Blind Hiring Processes

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Speaker
Anne Boring (Erasmus School of Economics)
Date
Thursday 12 Sep 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Type
Seminar
Room
Kitchen/Lounge E1
Building
E Building
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Blind hiring processes are one of the main policies that organisations use to reduce biases at the hiring stage. We examine demand-side, supply-side, and net effects of blinding information about gender and age in applications in the context of an online survey experiment. 

Joint work with Katie B. Coffman, Dylan Glover, and María-José González-Fuentes

We assign participants to the role of recruiter or job candidate. We examine recruiters' willingness to hire candidates under a blind or a non-blind hiring process. 

Next, we examine candidates' willingness to apply under a blind and a non-blind hiring process. Then, we ask candidates to what factors would they attribute recruiters' decisions to either hire or not hire them. We relate these beliefs to recruiters' actual discrimination on the market. 

Finally, we examine whether rejection and the reasons that job seekers attribute to rejection impact their willingness to apply to a new job opportunity.  

Registration

To participate, please send an email to: ae-secr@ese.eur.nl

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