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

Henry S. Farber, Dan Silverman, Till M. von Wachter
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2017, 3 (3) 168-201; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.08
Henry S. Farber
aHughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University
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bRondthaler Professor of Economics at Arizona State University
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Till M. von Wachter
cAssociate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles
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