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Do black lives matter to employers? A combined field and natural experiment of racially disparate hiring practices in the wake of protests against police violence and racial oppression

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dc.contributor.author Kirk, David S.
dc.contributor.author Rovira, Martí
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-06T05:39:15Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-06T05:39:15Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Kirk DS, Rovira M. Do black lives matter to employers? A combined field and natural experiment of racially disparate hiring practices in the wake of protests against police violence and racial oppression. PLoS ONE. 2022 May 25;17(5):e0267889. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267889
dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60012
dc.description.abstract This study uses an experimental audit design, implemented both before and during the heightened unrest following the murder of George Floyd, to gauge the impact of Black Lives Matter and associated protests against police brutality and anti-Black racism on racially disparate hiring practices. We contrast treatment of fictitious Black and White job applicants in the labor market for service-related job openings, specifically applicants with prior experience as a police officer, firefighter, or code enforcement officer. Results reveal that the White advantage in employer call-backs and requests for an interview receded during the protests and unrest following the killing of George Floyd, even to the point of producing a Black advantage.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
dc.relation.ispartof PLoS ONE. 2022 May 25;17(5):e0267889
dc.rights © 2022 Kirk, Rovira. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.other Serveis policials per als immigrants
dc.subject.other Discriminació racial
dc.subject.other Delictes violents
dc.title Do black lives matter to employers? A combined field and natural experiment of racially disparate hiring practices in the wake of protests against police violence and racial oppression
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267889
dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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