A large-scale field experiment on occupational gender segregation and hiring discrimination

TY - JOUR

T1 - A large-scale field experiment on occupational gender segregation and hiring discrimination

AU - Adamovic, Mladen

AU - Leibbrandt, Andreas

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Industrial Relations published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Regents of the University of California (RUC).

PY - 2023/1

Y1 - 2023/1

N2 - We analyze the relationship between occupational gender composition and gender discrimination in recruitment and investigate whether there is hiring discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations. We do this with a large-scale field experiment where we submitted more than 12,000 job applications for 12 occupations in Australia, varying the gender of the applicants. Men received around 50% more callbacks than women in male-dominated occupations, while they received over 40% fewer callbacks in female-dominated occupations.

AB - We analyze the relationship between occupational gender composition and gender discrimination in recruitment and investigate whether there is hiring discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations. We do this with a large-scale field experiment where we submitted more than 12,000 job applications for 12 occupations in Australia, varying the gender of the applicants. Men received around 50% more callbacks than women in male-dominated occupations, while they received over 40% fewer callbacks in female-dominated occupations.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132981479&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/irel.12318

DO - 10.1111/irel.12318

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85132981479

SN - 0019-8676

VL - 62

SP - 34

EP - 59

JO - INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

JF - INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

IS - 1

ER -