Episode 21: Systemic Discrimination -- with Evan K. Rose

Evan K. Rose talks to us about his research on the relationship between human capital, company behavior and discrimination. Looking at the hiring procedures of over a hundred Fortune 500 firms across the US, Rose found that there were significant penalties for applicants belonging to gender and/or racial minorities. In this episode, Rose discusses the policy implications of this phenomenon, and the need for change in both institutional and internal practices. Paper: “Systemic Discrimination among Large U.S. Employers” by Patrick M. Kline, Evan K. Rose and Christopher R. Walters (2021) https://eml.berkeley.edu//~crwalters/papers/randres.pdf Recommendation: “The Anatomy of Racial Inequality” (2003) by Glenn C. Loury https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330838.The_Anatomy_of_Racial_Inequality?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=FRGe9JFpvD&rank=1

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