Dear colleagues,
We hereby invite you to join our next Economics
of Inequality Research Seminar at WU Vienna.
Lindsey Macmillan
(University College London)
will present the paper
Inequalities in
Applications and Offers to
Graduate Recruitment
Programs.
Date and Time:
Monday, November 11; 3.00 p.m.
Location: WU Vienna, D3 - D3.0.218.
Abstract
While previous research has shown that disadvantaged young people are less likely to work in professional occupations than their advantaged peers, even conditional on their education, until now little
has been known about the reasons for this - are they applying for professional entry-level roles and not being hired, or are they not applying in the first place? Using unique recruitment data from 17 large employers' graduate programmes, we are able to answer
this question for the first time. We find that applicants from lower SEB groups and ethnic minority groups are well represented among the applicant pool, but disproportionately do not receive job offers, even when considering applicants with similar prior
attainment and other demographic characteristics applying to similar roles. Around half of the gap in job offers between working class and professional background applicants appears during the application sift and online test phase of the process. The other
half of the gap in offers emerges at the face-to-face stages. For ethnic minority groups, the majority of the gap in offer rates emerges at the application sift and online test phase, rather than at the face-to-face stage. Women are typically underrepresented
in the applicant pool across entry routes but are more likely to achieve a job offer than otherwise similar men, among those who do apply.
Please register your participation
here.
Best regards,
Franziska Disslbacher