October 31, 2015

IZA World of Labor article on hiring discrimination in The Economist

Ulf Rinne's article Anonymous job applications and hiring discrimination was featured in The Economist in late October 2015. The piece was covered in both the online and printed editions, under the title "No names, no bias?" In the article, the journalists comments "A review of various studies by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) found that anonymized job applications boost the chances of ethnic-minority candidates being invited to an interview."

This article was also featured in the Financial Times blog and Business Insider, among others.