%0 Journal Article %A Henry S. Farber %A Dan Silverman %A Till M. von Wachter %T Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study %D 2017 %R 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.08 %J RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences %P 168-201 %V 3 %N 3 %X We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level interim job while applying for a better job affect the likelihood that experienced college-educated females applying for an administrative support job receive a callback from potential employers. First, the results show no relationship between callback rates and unemployment duration. Second, workers age fifty and older are significantly less likely to receive a callback. Third, taking an interim job significantly reduces the likelihood of receiving a callback. Finally, employers who have higher callback rates respond less to observable differences across workers in determining whom to call back. %U https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/rsfjss/3/3/168.full.pdf