Unintended Effects of Anonymous
Article dans une revue: We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized résumés for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous résumés or name-bearing ones. We find that participating firms become less likely to interview and hire minority candidates when receiving anonymous résumés. We show how these unexpected results can be explained by the self-selection of firms into the program and by the fact that anonymization prevents the attenuation of negative signals when the candidate belongs to a minority.
Auteur(s)
Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Thomas Le Barbanchon
Revue
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Date de publication
- 2015
Mots-clés JEL
Mots-clés
- Non-labor Discrimination
Pages
- 1-27
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1
Volume
- 7