Evan K. Rose talks to us about his research on the relationship between human capital, company behavior and discrimination. Looking at the hiring procedures of over a hundred Fortune 500 firms across the US, Rose found that there were significant penalties for applicants belonging to gender and/or racial minorities. In this episode, Rose discusses the policy implications of this phenomenon, and the need for change in both institutional and internal practices.
Paper:
“Systemic Discrimination among Large U.S. Employers” by Patrick M. Kline, Evan K. Rose and Christopher R. Walters (2021)
https://eml.berkeley.edu//~crwalters/papers/randres.pdf
Recommendation:
“The Anatomy of Racial Inequality” (2003) by Glenn C. Loury
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330838.TheAnatomyofRacialInequality?fromsearch=true&fromsrp=true&qid=FRGe9JFpvD&rank=1