Predicted callback rates across applicant gender/race and percent difference in callback rates relative to white men, within applicant–job trajectory. Credit: American Sociological Review (2024). DOI: 10.1177/00031224241245706 In 2004, a pair of economists published a landmark study to measure discrimination in the labor market. In the study, the researchers applied to real job openings with fictitious applicants but changed the applicant names to reflect a different gender or race. They found clear evidence of discrimination: White men and women received 50% more callbacks than Black men and women. More recently, Berkeley Read More