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Annual Review of Sociology

Volume 47, 2021

Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring: The Rise of Field Experiments

Abstract

This article reviews studies of hiring discrimination against racial and ethnic minority groups in cross-national perspective. We focus on field experimental studies of hiring discrimination: studies that use fictitious applications from members of different racial and ethnic groups to apply for actual jobs. There are more than 140 field experimental studies of hiring discrimination against ethno-racial minority groups in 30 countries. We outline seventeen empirical findings from this body of studies. We also discuss individual and contextual theories of hiring discrimination, the relative strengths and weaknesses of field experiments to assess discrimination, and the history of such field experiments. The comparative scope of this body of research helps to move beyond micromodels of employer decision-making to better understand the roles of history, social context, institutional rules, and racist ideologies in producing discrimination. These studies show that racial and ethnic discrimination is a pervasive international phenomenon that has hardly declined over time, although levels vary significantly over countries. Evidence indicates that institutional rules regarding race and ethnicity in hiring can have an important influence on levels of discrimination. Suggestions for future research on discrimination are discussed.

Keyword(s): discrimination, ethnicity, field experiments, labor markets, race, racism
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Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring: The Rise of Field Experiments
Annual Review of Sociology 47, 391 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-090420-035144
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