Black-sounding names less likely to receive job call backs than white-sounding ones: Study

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White-sounding names get called back for jobs more than Black ones, a new study finds

Economists sent 83,000 fake job applications to a slew of major U.S. companies, and found that the typical firm favored white applicants over Black ones by around 9%.

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White-sounding names get called back for jobs more than Black ones, a new study finds

Twenty years ago, two economists responded to a slew of help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers using a set of fictitious names to test for racial bias in the job market.The watershed study found that applicants with names suggesting they were white got 50% more callbacks from employers than those whose names indicated they were Black.Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago recently took that …

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White-Sounding Names Get More Job Callbacks Than Black Ones: Study

Applicants with white-sounding names are more likely to get called back for a job than individuals with Black ones.

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White-Sounding Names Get Call Backs for Job Openings More Than Black Ones: Study

Employers averaged a call back for presumably white applicants around 9% more than Black ones but certain industries were much worse.