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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. Labour Economics, 59 . pp. 139-152. doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2019.04.009 ISSN 0927-5371.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2019.04.009
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 large-scale 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-à-vis 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 childless 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: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Labour Economics | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0927-5371 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | August 2019 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 59 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 139-152 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.labeco.2019.04.009 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
| Description: | Part of special issue on "European Association of Labour Economists", 30th Annual Conference, Lyon, France, 13-15 September 2018, edited by Eric Maurin. |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 April 2019 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 April 2019 | |||||||||
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