The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Racial Bias in Hiring
Research by Marianne Bertrand
The authors find that applicants with white sounding names are 50 percent more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with African-American-sounding names.
In addition, race greatly affects how much applicants benefit from having more experience and credentials.
Having a higher-quality resume has a much smaller impact on African-American applicants, who experienced only 9 percent more callbacks for the same improvement in their credentials.
The evidence suggest that discrimination is an important factor in why African-Americans do poorly in the labor market as compared to whites, and indicates one possible reason for the persistence in racial inequality over time.
#Loray Muhammad, author
#Black Integration a Failed Social Experiment