Black-sounding names less likely to receive job call backs than white-sounding ones: Study

The Hill ^ | Apr 12, 2024 | CHEYANNE M. DANIELS

[where's_the_Outrage?]

A new study shows that employers are less likely to call back applicants with Black-sounding names than those with white-sounding ones.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago recently filed 83,000 fake job applications for 11,000 entry-level positions at multiple Fortune 500 companies with names like Brad, Greg, Darnell, Lamar, Amanda, Kristen, Ebony and Latoya.

The study, “A Discrimination Report Card,” found that the white-sounding applicant names were favored up to 24 percent more than the likely Black applicants.

“It’s of course upsetting and discouraging that in the year 2023 and so on that this phenomenon persists and can be at the level that it can be detected with an experiment like ours,” Evan K. Rose, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report, said.

The 2021 study built upon research from a 2003 study, which found that applicants with names that sounded white got 50 percent more callbacks than those whose names sounded Black.

The new report also found that the percentage of discrimination varied among industries and went onto name companies with the worst rates. Auto dealers and car part retailers were the least likely to call back Black applicants.

[NWFree]

Because they know the work ethic of DeMarcus

[Kenny500c]

And fat chicks in blue dresses singing about their meds.

[thecodont]

I stop reading when “black” is capitalized.

They've turned a color into what is effectively a country.

Substitute [name of country] for that particular color, and then re-read the sentence. Any country that shows up on a map will work.

[Mr Rogers]

As a kid, I was sometimes one of a couple named Bob in a class. Often a couple of kids named Mike.

Now? “Wait, you say your name is “Bob”? THREE LETTERS? What’s wrong, your parents couldn’t spell?”

[VideoDoctor]

Maybe focusing on names isn’t what everybody should be doing...

So VERY TRUE!

The story sort of MISSES the POINT... WHY?... Because it DOES NOT talk about the "CHARACTER of the PERSON", or the ABILITIES they POSSESS, rather, it focuses on the COLOR of their SKIN because of their NAME.

[fhayek]

Mohammad tends to be arrogant, and will not take orders from female supervisors...

...or so I am told.

[Night Hides Not]

Thanks for your reply. Seems like we're on the same wavelength. I'm ex-military, too. My first two years were at Hahn AB, our mission was short range air defense. 80 hour weeks were the norm, thanks to staff duty officer requirements.

LOL, during AF/NATO alerts, I ended up in the Wing CP for 4 days straight. I didn't mind, I was 23/24...indestructible.

I can't retire for 2-3 years for financial reasons. I'm no saint, but I have a 2YO granddaughter with continuing issues from her preemie birth. My wife and I have reached our limit, now it's time to pay down the debts incurred, and turn over the job to the parents.

My job is secure, there are so many filing issues that we won't have them cleared up for two more years. LOL, in the interim, I'll let my boss complain about his 70 hour weeks for all the world to hear.

Can I hang in there for a few more years? We'll find out.

Thanks for your service. I did 8 years active duty, no regrets. I stayed on that long, solely for a chance at being a Battery Commander.

[Night Hides Not]

The story sort of MISSES the POINT... WHY?... Because it DOES NOT talk about the "CHARACTER of the PERSON", or the ABILITIES they POSSESS, rather, it focuses on the COLOR of their SKIN because of their NAME.

Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave. Yeah, I saw the "I Have a Dream Speech" in real time.

[thecodont]

As soon as that person became of adult age, they officially changed their name to something non-ghetto.

Good for him/her.

[AbolishCSEU]

Agreed

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Yeah, businesses want to make money.

[Albion Wilde]

Auto dealers and car part retailers were the least likely to call back Black applicants.

Wonder why that is, in a business with a high theft vulnerability?

[arthurus]

Discrimination is simply noting the differences among objects, situations, people, etc. Without an ability to discriminate, sentient life would not be possible. Criminalizing Discrimination is rank insanity.

[Jim Noble]

“ A new study shows that employers are less likely to call back applicants with Black-sounding names than those with white-sounding ones.”

And from this we conclude … what?

[Chickensoup]

That is very true.

Saw a medical center bring 4 attorneys a unit manager, and supervisor snd sn veep to the firing of a black CNA!

[Chickensoup]

This is funny
About black names

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwvnBzJK5k

[nopardons]

Yes, blacks used to have NORMAL names and as I read this thread, I keep wondering when and WHY that all changed.

Blacks who come here to work, I understand can have non-European names, but that’s akin to people coming here from non-English speaking nations having an unusual/spelled differently name.

[rxh4n1]

“Where is the outrage from these companies that they were spammed with 83,000 fake job applications that had to be processed?”

Also, did they stop to consider that maybe those companies detected they were fake?

[Political Junkie Too]

That's a good point.

What contact information did they include? Did all 83,000 fake job applications have the same phone number and email address? Did the return information go back to university non-student accounts?

-PJ

[linMcHlp]

Speaking, reading, and writing English, well, would be appreciated.