Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Burn, Ian; Button, Patrick; Corella, Luis Munguia; Neumark, David
• 署名单位: University of Liverpool; Tulane University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/717730
• 发表日期: 2022
• 关键词: older workers; skill requirements; cognitive-ability; younger workers; memory changes; labor-market; stereotypes; perceptions; beliefs; performance

摘要

We study ageist stereotypes reflected in job-ad language and age discrimination in hiring, exploiting job-ad text and evidence on age discrimination from a correspondence study. We develop and use methods from computational linguistics and machine learning. We find that language related to stereotypes of older workers sometimes predicts hiring discrimination against older men. This is the case for all three categories of age stereotypes we consider-health, personality, and skill. For women, we find that age stereotypes about personality predict differential hiring by age. The evidence for men is quite consistent with the industrial psychology literature on age stereotypes.