TY - JOUR T1 - Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study JF - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences SP - 168 LP - 201 DO - 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.08 VL - 3 IS - 3 AU - Henry S. Farber AU - Dan Silverman AU - Till M. von Wachter Y1 - 2017/04/01 UR - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/3/3/168.abstract N2 - 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. ER -