Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Neumark, David; Burn, Ian; Button, Patrick
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Irvine; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Stockholm University; Tulane University; RAND Corporation
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/701029
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 922-970
• 关键词: discrimination; AGE

摘要

We design and implement a large-scale resume correspondence study to address limitations of existing field experiments testing for age discrimination that may bias their results. One limitation that may bias results is giving older and younger applicants similar experience to make them otherwise comparable. A second limitation is that greater unobserved differences in human capital investment of older applicants may bias the results against finding age discrimination. On the basis of over 40,000 job applications, we find robust evidence of age discrimination in hiring against older women, especially those near retirement age, but considerably less evidence of age discrimination against men.