@article{b31f9045ca1047eda6db09ce04896ea2,
title = "Factors determining callbacks to job applications by the unemployed: An audit study",
abstract = "We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level interim job while applying for a better job affect the likelihood that experienced college-educated females applying for an administrative support job receive a callback from potential employers. First, the results show no relationship between callback rates and unemployment duration. Second, workers age fifty and older are significantly less likely to receive a callback. Third, taking an interim job significantly reduces the likelihood of receiving a callback. Finally, employers who have higher callback rates respond less to observable differences across workers in determining whom to call back.",
keywords = "Age discrimination, Audit study, Interim jobs, Job finding, Unemployment duration",
author = "Farber, {Henry S.} and Professor, {Dan Silverman} and {Von Wachter}, {Till M.}",
note = "Funding Information: {\textcopyright} 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Farber, Henry S., Dan Silverman, and Till M. von Wachter. 2017. “Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(3): 168–201. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.08. The authors thank the Sloan Foundation for financial support. They also thank Joanna Lahey, Matthew Notowidigdo, and participants in workshops at CREST, Princeton University, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, UCSD, and UCLA for helpful comments and discussion. Direct correspondence to: Henry S. Farber at farber@princeton.edu, Industrial Relations Section, Simpson International Building, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; Dan Silverman at dsilver3@asu.edu, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, PO Box 879801, Tempe, AZ 85287; and Till M. von Wachter at tvwachter@econ.ucla.edu, Department of Economics, 8283 Bunche Hall, Mail Stop: 147703, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Russell Sage Foundation.",
year = "2017",
month = apr,
doi = "10.7758/rsf.2017.3.3.08",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "3",
pages = "168--201",
journal = "RSF",
issn = "2377-8253",
publisher = "Russell Sage Foundation",
number = "3",
}