| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21669 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21669 |
| Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment | |
| David Neumark; Ian Burn; Patrick Button | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-10-26 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We design and implement a large-scale field experiment – a resume correspondence study – to address a number of potential limitations of existing field experiments testing for age discrimination, which may bias their results. One limitation that may bias these studies towards finding discrimination is the practice of giving older and younger applicants similar experience in the job to which they are applying, making them “otherwise comparable.” The second limitation arises because greater unobserved differences in human capital investment of older applicants may bias existing field experiments against finding age discrimination. We also study ages closer to retirement than in past studies, and use a richer set of job profiles for older workers to test for differences associated with transitions to less demanding jobs (“bridge jobs”) at older ages. Based on evidence from over 40,000 job applications, we find robust evidence of age discrimination in hiring against older women, especially those near retirement age. But we find that there is considerably less evidence of age discrimination against men after correcting for the potential biases this study addresses. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Discrimination ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21669 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579344 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Neumark,Ian Burn,Patrick Button. Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment. 2015. |
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