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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: 73-20845 AUTHOR: Braddock, Jomills H.; Crain, Robert L.; McPartland, James M.; Dawkins, Russell L.
TITLE: How race affects job placement decisions: Results of
a vignette experiment with a national sample of employers.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1985
JOURNAL: Center-for-Social-Organization-of-Schools-Report,
Johns-Hopkins-U.; 1985 Jul Rpt No 359 1-41
ABSTRACT: Surveyed 20,000 high school (HS) seniors in a
longitudinal study to investigate placement decisions made
by personnel officers. Results suggest that White personnel
officers tend to assign Black male HS graduates to lower
paying positions than those assigned to White male HS
graduates. Similar patterns are observed for Black female
college graduates. These patterns of apparent bias in job
placement are offset to some degree in firms that have
strong affirmative action policies. (21 ref) (PsycLIT
Database Copyright 1986 American Psychological Assn, all
rights reserved)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: RACIAL-AND-ETHNIC-DIFFERENCES; PERSONNEL
PLACEMENT; BLACKS-; WHITES-; LONGITUDINAL-STUDIES;
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