SOCIOL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Confidence Interval, Classified Advertising, Wage Labour
28 Dec 2016
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Socio106 lecture 20 a work force experiment. The employer effects, ai, induce a correlation among observations from the same employers and reduce standard errors, as in the usual matched-pair inference. The problems of matching: the quality of audit results depends on the comparability of the testers. Shifting standards: making it past the initial point of contact was not the only hurdle facing minority applicants. Indeed, among those who recorded more extensive interaction with employers, we observe a complex set of racial dynamics at work. Race-coded job channeling: the first two categories of differential treatment focus on the decision to hire, another black tester, joe, was similarly channeled out of a customer service position in his application to a japanese restaurant. Discussion: sending trained testers with equivalent r sum s to apply for entry-level jobs reveals clear evidence of discrimination among low-wage employers in new york.
