Date of Completion
2023
Document Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
Economics
Thesis Type
Honors College, College of Arts and Science Honors
First Advisor
Emily Beam
Keywords
Economics, Discrimination, Transgender, Labor, Correspondence Study
Abstract
I conducted a correspondence study to measure the hiring discrimination against transgender individuals in the United States labor market. I randomly assigned transgender identity to resumes to determine if there is discrimination against transgender individuals in the hiring process of entry-level jobs. During the month of February 2023, I submitted 1100 resumes to job postings on Craigslist in Arizona, California, New York, and Texas. The results do not show a detectable effect of being transgender or a woman on the callback rate; however, I find that transgender women are 6 percentage points less likely to receive a callback than cisgender men, which is statistically significant at the 5% level in the employer fixed effects model. This suggests that there is hiring discrimination against transgender women in the US labor market.
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Recommended Citation
Stanton, Ivy, "Hiring Discrimination against Transgender Individuals in the US Labor Market" (2023). UVM Honors College Senior Theses. 594.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/hcoltheses/594