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Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
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Becker, Sascha O., Fernandes, Ana and Weichselbaumer, Doris (2019) Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility : evidence from a large-scale field experiment. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1193). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a largescale correspondence test in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, sending out approx. 9,000 job applications, varying job candidate’s personal characteristics such as marital status and age of children. We find evidence that, for part-time jobs, married women with older kids, who likely finished their childbearing cycle and have more projectable childcare chores than women with very young kids, are at a significant advantage vis-àvis other groups of women. At the same time, married, but childless applicants, who have a higher likelihood to become pregnant, are at a disadvantage compared to single, but hildless applicants to part-time jobs. Such effects are not present for full-time jobs, presumably, because by applying to these in contrast to part-time jobs, women signal that they have arranged for external childcare
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women -- Employment -- Age factors -- Germany, Women -- Employment -- Age factors -- Austria, Women -- Employment -- Age factors -- Switzerland, Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects -- Germany, Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects -- Austria, Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects -- Switzerland, Part-time employment -- Germany, Part-time employment -- Austria, Part-time employment -- Switzerland | ||||||||||||
Series Name: | Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0083-7350 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2019 | ||||||||||||
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Number: | 1193 | ||||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 35 | ||||||||||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||||||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
Description: | This paper also appears as CAGE Working paper 412 |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 March 2018 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 March 2018 | ||||||||||||
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