Replication data for: Determinants of Callbacks to Job Applications: An Audit Study

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Project Citation:

Farber, Henry S., Silverman, Dan, and von Wachter, Till. Replication data for: Determinants of Callbacks to Job Applications: An Audit Study. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113434V1

Project Description

Summary: We summarize findings from an audit study investigating how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level "interim" job affect the likelihood that experienced college-educated females applying for administrative support jobs receive a callback from potential employers. The results show no relationship between callback rates and unemployment duration. In contrast, workers age 50 and older and workers with an "interim" job are significantly less likely to receive callbacks. We also summarize disparate findings in the growing literature of resume-based audit studies of career histories, and discuss avenues in which the literature could achieve results that are more comparable and externally valid.

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JEL Classification:
      E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
      E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
      J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J23 Labor Demand
      J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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