Schöller Fellow Dr. Almasa Sarabi (with N. Lehmann) published an article in Administrative Science Quarterly.
A substantial body of research examines the relevance of hiring as a source of gender disparities in organizations. However, there is limited evidence on how different groups of key organizational decision makers contribute to gender disparities in hiring outcomes.
To address this research gap, the authors exploited the adoption of a new hiring process in a multinational corporation, which transferred the task of shortlisting from hiring managers to HR departments. In their paper “Who Shortlists? Evidence on Gender Disparities in Hiring Outcomes”, they find that the transfer of shortlisting from hiring managers to HR departments led to fewer gender disparities in hiring outcomes and thus increased the proportion of newly hired women.
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