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Black-sounding names less likely to receive job call backs than white-sounding ones: Study
The Hill ^ | Apr 12, 2024 | CHEYANNE M. DANIELS

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: discrimination; names; normalization; racism
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
My (white) son has a first name that was very popular for males born in the 1930s and 1940s. It fell out of favor after that and it currently is almost exclusively only given to black males.

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.

81 posted on 04/13/2024 7:47:19 AM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: Leaning Right

Or Lucifer, for that matter.


82 posted on 04/13/2024 7:49:09 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: x

You are correct.


83 posted on 04/13/2024 7:49:49 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

BTTT


84 posted on 04/13/2024 7:51:01 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: ealgeone

“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.


85 posted on 04/13/2024 8:05:10 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Most employers are likely not interested in known lollygaggers, aka 'black time' proliferators.

si.e., showing up whenever with a bag of doughnuts and a super large coffee or soda.

86 posted on 04/13/2024 8:06:07 AM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

87 posted on 04/13/2024 8:09:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago recently filed 83,000 fake job applications

Sounds illegal.

88 posted on 04/13/2024 8:11:12 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: catnipman

Key and Peele - Substitute Teacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw


89 posted on 04/13/2024 8:11:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: catnipman

This one is even better....wait for the ending....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDp-ABzpRX8


90 posted on 04/13/2024 8:16:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr Rogers
So a boss who says 110% is the minimum is a boss who is just blowing smoke up your butt, OR someone with low standards!

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.

91 posted on 04/13/2024 8:32:29 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

As if it is only the name for why that may be…


92 posted on 04/13/2024 8:36:17 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Labyrinthos

Well, not for work anyway! LOL!


93 posted on 04/13/2024 8:37:06 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So??????


94 posted on 04/13/2024 8:38:20 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This is Deep State ginning up yet another game of lets-you-and-him-fight.

Don’t play.


95 posted on 04/13/2024 8:38:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: pfflier

LaQueefa couldn’t get a job at the library. They said she “wasn’t a good fit”.


96 posted on 04/13/2024 8:40:22 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: 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.


call back is “check the box” who got the job?


97 posted on 04/13/2024 8:40:48 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Its only because its hard to pronounce Quanifinondabooti Jones or Lettuciapurplcola Johnson.


98 posted on 04/13/2024 8:42:16 AM PDT by anton
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To: pfflier

There is a study that discovered that naming your son Antwon or DeMarcus makes him 77% more likely to go to prison.


99 posted on 04/13/2024 8:47:47 AM PDT by anton
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To: anton
There is a study that discovered that naming your son Antwon or DeMarcus makes him 77% more likely to go to prison.


100 posted on 04/13/2024 8:49:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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