Hiring Discrimination in the French Financial Sector: An Econometric Analysis on Field Experiment Data
Annals of Economy and Statistics, Vol. 78, pp. 79-102, 2006
Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Abstract
We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled experiment. We find that, on the one hand, the access differences to job interviews by women and men are primarily explained by the expectation of a maternity by young women and, on the other hand, we also find that some institutional mechanisms compensate this difference of treatment between genders so that there is no significant discrimination on average.
Keywords: discrimination, hiring, field experiment, bootstrap
JEL Classification: C15, C81, J16, J71
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Duguet, Emmanuel and Petit, Pascale, Hiring Discrimination in the French Financial Sector: An Econometric Analysis on Field Experiment Data
. Annals of Economy and Statistics, Vol. 78, pp. 79-102, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=881569
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