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Men, Women and the Hiring Function
Author(s) -
MUMFORD KAREN,
SMITH PETER N.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2000.tb00034.x
Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , seekers , demographic economics , labour economics , economics , function (biology) , political science , computer science , law , machine learning , evolutionary biology , biology
This paper examines the idea of ranking of groups and genders of unemployed labour force participants in terms of their hiring probabilities.We find a clear ranking of men over women in the hiring process in Australia. We also find that amongst males, employed job seekers are ranked above those unemployed and, in turn, above those not in the labour force. For women, the unemployed and employed are not found to be competing with each other, whilst those not in the labour force are ranked below the unemployed.