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

Mladen Adamovic; Andreas Leibbrandt

doi:10.1111/irel.12318

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

Mladen Adamovic, Andreas Leibbrandt

Department of Economics

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	34-59
Number of pages	26
Journal	Industrial Relations
Volume	62
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12318
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

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SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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