White-Sounding Names Get Called Back For Jobs More Than Black Ones, A New Study Finds
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By Joe Hernandez | NPR Twenty years ago, two economists responded to a slew of help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers using a set of fictitious names to test for racial bias in the job market. The watershed study found that applicants with names suggesting they were white got 50% more callbacks from employers than those […]