‘Don’t call us, we’ll call you.’ Ever heard that line before? While finding a job in an uncertain economy is a challenge for anyone, prejudice puts some groups at a particular disadvantage. In order to gauge the extent of hiring discrimination among American employers, researchers secretly sent 80,000 resumes to 10,000 job openings posted by nearly 100 American corporations between 2019 and 2021. The fictitious resumes had equivalent qualifications for each job application. In other words, each sampled job had four pairs of applications, with each pair including one Black applicant and one whi…
