data from an online recruitment platform and an online job board to examine how easy it is to get a part-time job and … gender preferences of firms indicated in a confidential online form. Second, I analyze hiring decisions of recruiters who …

and taste-based theories of discrimination propose similar observable outcomes (lower rates of disfavored minority hiring … distinguish between taste-based discrimination where employers' racial animus is the key motivation for their poor treatment of … minorities and variants of statistical discrimination where there is no assumption at all of racial animus on the part of the …

. The exponential growth of this nascent online phenomenon holds important social and economic implications, as the hiring …, limited effort has been devoted to understanding whether potential hiring biases exist in online labor platforms and how they … may affect hiring outcomes. Using a novel proprietary dataset from a leading online labor platform, we investigate the …