RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences FD Russell Sage Foundation SP 168 OP 201 DO 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.08 VO 3 IS 3 A1 Henry S. Farber A1 Dan Silverman A1 Till M. von Wachter YR 2017 UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/3/3/168.abstract 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.