Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study

Henry S. Farber; Dan Silverman; Till M. von Wachter

doi:10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.08

Article Information

vol. 3 no. 3 168-201

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online April 1, 2017.

© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Farber, Henry S., Dan Silverman, and Till M. von Wachter. 2017. “Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(3): 168–201. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.08. The authors thank the Sloan Foundation for financial support. They also thank Joanna Lahey, Matthew Notowidigdo, and participants in workshops at CREST, Princeton University, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, UCSD, and UCLA for helpful comments and discussion. Direct correspondence to: Henry S. Farber at farber{at}princeton.edu, Industrial Relations Section, Simpson International Building, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; Dan Silverman at dsilver3{at}asu.edu, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, PO Box 879801, Tempe, AZ 85287; and Till M. von Wachter at tvwachter{at}econ.ucla.edu, Department of Economics, 8283 Bunche Hall, Mail Stop: 147703, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Henry S. Farber^a,
Dan Silverman^b and
Till M. von Wachter^c

^aHughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University
^bRondthaler Professor of Economics at Arizona State University
^cAssociate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles

Corresponding authors:
Henry S. Farber, (farber{at}princeton.edu); Dan Silverman, (dsilver3{at}asu.edu); Till M. von Wachter, (tvwachter{at}econ.ucla.edu)

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