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Title: Hiring Manager's Race in the Hiring Process

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: Recent research has focused on the role of hiring managers in hiring processes. A particular finding of a number of studies is that minority managers are more likely to hire minorities than are white managers. Although these studies have shed light on a number of mechanisms that are alleged to account for the pattern that minority managers tend to hire minorities, their research designs select on the dependent variable by studying only people who have been hired. We argue that these studies cannot safely make inferences about managers race differentials in the tendency to select one group over another. By distinguishing the various mechanisms involved in hiring process, we show the conditions under which it is safe to conjecture about hiring managers propensity to hire same race individuals. We illustrate these arguments using unique data on how candidates are selected from the pool of candidates for entry-level jobs in a decentralized setting exhibiting variation in both hiring managers and job candidates race.

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Authors: Greenberg, Jason; Fernandez, Roberto M.

Conference Name: American Sociological Association

Publisher Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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