Age, women, and hiring
Subtitle: an experimental study
By: Joanna Lahey.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11435; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11435.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Age discrimination in employment -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Age discrimination in employment -- Florida -- Saint Petersburg.; Older women -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Older women -- Florida -- Saint Petersburg.
Description: "As the baby boom cohort reaches retirement age, demographic pressures on public programs such as social security may cause policy makers to cut benefits and encourage employment at later ages.  This paper reports on a labor market experiment to determine the hiring conditions for older women in entry-level jobs in Boston, MA and St.  Petersburg, FL.  Differential interviewing by age is found for these jobs.  A younger worker is more than 40% more likely to be offered an interview than an older worker.  No evidence is found to support taste-based discrimination as a reason for this differential and some suggestive evidence is found to support statistical discrimination"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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