Dear colleagues, We hereby invite you to join our next Economics of Inequality Research Seminar<https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar> at WU Vienna. Lindsey Macmillan<https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/48151-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<https://campus.wu.ac.at/?q=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<https://www.wu.ac.at/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar/registration-macmillan>. Best regards, Franziska Disslbacher ---- Franziska Disslbacher, PhD Assistant Professor Department Socio-Economics & Research Institute Economics of Inequality WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business +43 1 313 36 6669 franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at<mailto:franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at> franziskadisslbacher.com<http://franziskadisslbacher.com> WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria Building D3, D3 0.251