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Hiring Discrimination against Transgender Individuals in the US Labor Market
Stanton, Ivy
Stanton, Ivy
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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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2023-01-01