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| No foot in the door: an experimental study of employment discrimination against older workers | | Author(s) | Marc Bendick, Lauren E Brown, Kennington Wall |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 10, no 4, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 5-24 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Adults ; Middle aged ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Economic research provides a variety of indirect evidence that discrimination against older workers continue to operate in the US labour market. However, there have been few studies that have examined such discrimination directly. In this study, pairs of testers, one aged 57 and one aged 32, applied for 103 entry-level sales or management jobs in Washington, DC. Although their credentials described them as equally qualified, the older applicants received less favourable responses from employers 41.2% of the time. Three quarters of these differences occurred before older applicants could fully present their qualifications. The negative employer assumptions about older workers implied by these differences in outcome were seldom explicitly stated. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000322213 A |
| Classmark | GC: TOB: SD: SE: 7T |
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