PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Henry S. Farber
AU  - Dan Silverman
AU  - Till M. von Wachter
TI  - Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study
AID  - 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.08
DP  - 2017 Apr 01
TA  - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
PG  - 168--201
VI  - 3
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/3/3/168.short
4100  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/3/3/168.full
AB  - 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.