回调函数
工作面试
业务
公共关系
心理学
计算机科学
社会心理学
政治学
程序设计语言
作者
Alessandro Acquisti,Christina M. Fong
出处
期刊:Management Science
[Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences]
日期:2019-11-01
卷期号:66 (3): 1005-1024
被引量:157
标识
DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2018.3269
摘要
We investigate whether personal information posted by job candidates on social media sites is sought and used by prospective U.S. employers. We create profiles for job candidates on popular social networks, manipulating information protected under U.S. laws, and submit job applications on their behalf to more than 4,000 employers. We estimate employer search activity and bias in interview callbacks. We find evidence of employers searching online for the candidates. At the national level, we find no significant difference in the callback rates for a Muslim versus a Christian candidate, or for a gay versus a straight candidate. However, employers in Republican areas exhibit significant bias against the Muslim candidate relative to the Christian candidate. This bias is significantly larger than the bias in Democratic areas. The results on callback bias are robust to using state- and county-level data, to controlling for firm, job, and geographical characteristics, to including additional interaction effects in the empirical specification, and to several estimation strategies. The results suggest that the online disclosure of certain personal traits can influence the hiring decisions of some U.S. employers, but the likelihood of hiring discrimination via online searches varies across employers. This paper was accepted by Chris Forman, information systems.
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