Researchers from two American universities accused US employers in Rasism. In the course of scientific work, the results of which quotes Bloomberg, scientists found out that applicants with typical African-American names more often receive a refusal than owners of neutral names with the same characteristics.
University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago created 83 thousand submarine summons, where they used both ordinary names and pointing to racial affiliation. With their help, the researchers responded to the open-level vacancies in 108 major American employers in the Fortune 500 rating.
The authors found that the probability of response to applications with African American names was 2.1 percentage points lower than those where the name was typical for European views. However, the ratio of invitations to work and failures varied depending on the company. As a result of the experiment, about 20 percent of companies accounted for half of the discriminatory solutions – it is written in a document that has published the National Bureau of Economic Research.
For almost two decades ago, such a study was already conducted and found that, indeed, candidates with African American names are less likely to receive work. The results of the scientific work of Patrick Clain, Christopher Walters and Evan Rose only confirmed that, even despite the popularity of the tendency to inclusion and diversity, in 18 years little has changed.