How to detect racial discrimination in hiring

[tevarin]

http://www.slate.com/id/2183053/

A recent example was carried out by economists Sendhil Mullainathan and Marianne Bertrand. They generated about 5,000 fake job applications and used a computer to add, at random, distinctively black or white names. The employers who received the

Comments

[thisgirliknow]

I don't know if that's necessarily a racial discrimination issue. I was on your side fully until I heard about a study that was done that Will Segal told me about, thinking about it particularly economically

[subjectivity]

I thought of that too but I don't know, I think the full study would be worth a read in order to see if they controlled for that effect. In the abstract they say

[thisgirliknow]

Will mentioned that too-- that those who got interviews were hired on a much more "fair" basis with regard to names, it was getting the interview that was the problem

[subjectivity]

this link mentions some follow up studies that may be what Will was citing:
http://liberalorder.typepad.com/the_liberal_order/2004/09/racism_and_dist.html

Also I'd like to remove my comment that economic discrimination is "just as bad" as racism. It's not. But it's still bad.

[tevarin]

Look at the paper and find out:) It's forty pages, so I just skimmed it. They specifically address this concern (ghetto names) in Section 5.

African American babies named Kenya or Jamal are affiliated with much higher mothers’ education than