Older job seekers don't need data to tell them that it's a rough market out there, where businesses with increasingly short-run investment horizons favor lower costs over experience.
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Age discrimination is real, especially for women, and new research shows how it's hurting everybody
The authors sent résumés to all kinds of positions around the country in what they say is the largest experiment of its kind.
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But if hard evidence can help them fight discrimination through the justice system, here’s some.
A report published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found discernible and systematic patterns of age discrimination, particularly for women.
that older workers actually present," the authors said. "We leveraged technology to conduct our study on a massive scale … sending triplets of otherwise identical young, middle-aged, and older fictitious applications to over 13,000 positions in 12 cities spread across 11 states, totaling more than 40,000 applicants — by far the largest scale audit or correspondence study to date."
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