Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination: A Field Experiment

Bjørnshagen, Vegar; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Ugreninov, Elisabeth

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4473961

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“…All correspondence studies report significant differences in call-back rates between wheelchair and non-wheelchair users (Bellemare et al 2020;Bendick 2018;Bjørnshagen, Rooth, and Ugreninov 2023;Bjørnshagen and Ugreninov 2021;Fry 1986;Graham, Jordan, and Lamb 1990;Johnson and Heal 1976;Krogh and Bredgaard 2022;Ravaud, Madiot, and Ville 1992;A. Stone and Wright 2013).…”

Section: Effects Of Different Conditions and Impairments On Hiringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Six correspondence studies employ designs that compare occupations requiring different skills and levels of formal education (Baert 2016;Baert et al 2016;Capéau et al 2012;Bjørnshagen, Rooth, and Ugreninov 2023;Bjørnshagen and Ugreninov 2021;Drydakis 2010). In a study of wheelchair users in Norway, Bjørnshagen and Ugreninov (2021) examine a wide range of medium/high-skill and low skill occupations, from software developers and accountants to sales representatives and medical assistants, revealing occupational variation in call-back rates.…”

Section: Occupational and Workplace Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One study considers the influence of gender of the person responsible for hiring decision (Baert 2016). Finally, a study from Norway explores the impact of a diversity statement (Bjørnshagen, Rooth, and Ugreninov 2023), showing non-significant effects.…”

Section: Occupational and Workplace Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although gender is an important dimension of labour market discrimination, comparatively few studies explicitly addressing its interplay with disability status and reporting gender-specific rates of discrimination. In total, we found seven correspondence studies (Baert et al 2016;Bjørnshagen, Rooth, and between the two ascriptive statuses (Baert et al 2016;Bjørnshagen, Rooth, and Ugreninov 2023;Namingit, Blankenau, and Schwab 2021). For example, focusing on individuals with a history of cancer in the US, Namingit, Blankenau, and Schwab (2021) find a disproportionate effect of employment gap due to illness on women applicants' call-back rates.…”

Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, focusing on individuals with a history of cancer in the US, Namingit, Blankenau, and Schwab (2021) find a disproportionate effect of employment gap due to illness on women applicants' call-back rates. Bjørnshagen, Rooth, and Ugreninov (2023) offer the first comprehensive study of the complex interplay of gender and disability status, focusing on wheelchair users (congenital spinal cord injury).…”

Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review

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Chatzitheochari,

Liebe

2024

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Despite well-documented disability gaps globally, there is a lack of research using experimental methods to study discrimination in recruitment, which may constitute a major pathway through which the disability employment gap is sustained. In this paper, we review existing evidence on experimental research on disability discrimination in hiring and outline key areas for future research in the field. Our review underlines significant differences in callback rates based on disability status, and variability in effect sizes across different conditions/impairments. We also find that certain conditions/impairments have received more empirical attention than others. Exploring discrimination levels across a wider range of conditions and impairments is necessary to move beyond monolithic understandings of disability as a binary ascriptive status and to discern different causal mechanisms associated with adverse employment outcomes among different impairment/condition groups. We argue that intersectional, theoretically grounded, and cross-national experimental approaches are needed to better understand discrimination in hiring.

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