Posted on 04/13/2024 6:04:06 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A new study shows that employers are less likely to call back applicants with Black-sounding names than those with white-sounding ones.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago recently filed 83,000 fake job applications for 11,000 entry-level positions at multiple Fortune 500 companies with names like Brad, Greg, Darnell, Lamar, Amanda, Kristen, Ebony and Latoya.
The study, “A Discrimination Report Card,” found that the white-sounding applicant names were favored up to 24 percent more than the likely Black applicants.
“It’s of course upsetting and discouraging that in the year 2023 and so on that this phenomenon persists and can be at the level that it can be detected with an experiment like ours,” Evan K. Rose, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report, said.
The 2021 study built upon research from a 2003 study, which found that applicants with names that sounded white got 50 percent more callbacks than those whose names sounded Black.
The new report also found that the percentage of discrimination varied among industries and went onto name companies with the worst rates. Auto dealers and car part retailers were the least likely to call back Black applicants.
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Not sure if that affects him on his resume. He is doing well, so that is good. My wife and I gave him that name, because both his grandfathers (born in the 30s and 40s) have that name.
Of course, if I were blindly looking at names, nothing indicates black more than an apostrophe in the first name. That is rare for White, Hispanic, and Asian people.
Or Lucifer, for that matter.
You are correct.
BTTT
“From my time in mgt the name wasn’t what killed a potential interview.
It was their resume.
Grammar. Punctuation. Misspelled words.”
And the email address. booty4u@___.com is not going to get a callback.
si.e., showing up whenever with a bag of doughnuts and a super large coffee or soda.
Sounds illegal.
Key and Peele - Substitute Teacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
I work in the tax department at a real estate company. To say we are always busy is an understatement. My boss is great, but it's tiresome when he states publicly the hours he works.
I learned my lesson last year: I was assigned a project that required 55-60+ hour weeks for several months. I know what it means to be an "exempt employee", but my definition of exempt does not include 50+ hours a month of unpaid overtime.
So far this tax season, I'm averaging 50 hours a week. We've added two more accountants to the team, one of whom asked me, "I thought we were getting raises at the end of March." So it's not just me. It wouldn't surprise me if he's looking for a new job. He's a single dad in his 30s and doing a great job.
I'm realistic about the situation. I like where I work, and the people I work with. I'm not going anywhere, as I turn 70 in 3 weeks. I'll just be very selective about anything more than 50 hours a week.
Apologies for the yawner of a post.
As if it is only the name for why that may be…
Well, not for work anyway! LOL!
So??????
This is Deep State ginning up yet another game of lets-you-and-him-fight.
Don’t play.
LaQueefa couldn’t get a job at the library. They said she “wasn’t a good fit”.
A new study shows that employers are less likely to call back applicants with Black-sounding names than those with white-sounding ones.
Its only because its hard to pronounce Quanifinondabooti Jones or Lettuciapurplcola Johnson.
There is a study that discovered that naming your son Antwon or DeMarcus makes him 77% more likely to go to prison.
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