Age, women and hiring
Subtitle: an experimental study
By: Joanna Lahey.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 11435.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 11435.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Older women -- Employment -- United States
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: "June 2005."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36).

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