The use of anonymous job applications to combat hiring discrimination is gaining attention and interest. Results from a … light on their potential to reduce some of the discriminatory barriers to hiring for minority and other disadvantaged groups …

applications from two potential employees. We consider whether the gender of the other employer will influence an employerś hiring … decision. We find that the gender mix among employers plays a role in the individual hiring decisions of female members. Female … about relative gender performance are significantly associated with the observed hiring bias, while implicit attitudes do …

Increasing empirical research on productivity supports the use of statistical or ‘rational’ discrimination in hiring …

We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe … characterize how one agent's private valuation of the candidate influences the other agent's hiring practices. This influence is …