Labor market discrimination based on gender and socioeconomic level of the place of residence : a randomized experiment in Argentina

• Autores: Trako, Iva
• Año de publicación: 2010
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
• Colaborador/a o director/a de tesis: Rossi, Martín A.
• Materia: Discrimination in employment -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. -- Econometric models.; Sex discrimination in employment -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area -- Econometric models.; Discriminación en el trabajo -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Area Metropolitana. -- Modelos econométricos.; Discriminación sexual en el trabajo -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Area Metropolitana -- Modelos econométricos.
• Institución: Universidad de San Andrés

Fil: Trako, Iva. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.
This papers studies the presence of discrimination in terms of gender and socioeconomic level of the place of residence in Argentina. In order to assess the existence of discrimination in these dimensions, we submited approximately 2700 fictitious Curriculum Vitae (CV) for real job vacancies published daily in an important Argentine job-search website. A set of realistic and representative resumes without effectively using resumes that belong to actual job seekers, which were equivalent in terms of qualifications and employment experience were sent out, varying the gender and residential area. We estimated a binary choice model to identify differences in callbacks depending on gender and socioeconomic level of the place of residence. A simple descriptive analysis of our data and also our formal econometric estimations do not suggest evidence of discrimination based on gender. However, our results do suggest evidence of discrimination.