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RACE
AT WORK
Realities of
Race and Criminal Record
in the NYC Job Market
Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture
Langston Hughes Auditorium
Devah Pager
Bruce Western
Department of Sociology
Princeton University
This report was released as part of the NYC Commission on Human Rights conference Race At Work Realities of Race and Criminal Record in the NYC Job Market held on December 9, 2005 at the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture. Conference and publication supported by the JEHT Foundation.
RACE
AT WORK
young men (called testers)
Realities of Race and Criminal Record
in the NYC Job Market
in entry-level jobs. In some
to apply for 1470 real entry-
conditions, testers presented
level jobs throughout New
additional evidence of a felony
York City over ten months
conviction.
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in 2004. The testers were
R
well-spoken young men, aged
acial progress since
Contemporary forms of
22 to 26; most were college-
the 1960s has led some
discrimination are often subtle
educated, between 5 feet 10
researchers and policy makers
and covert, making it difficult
inches and 6 feet in height,
to proclaim the problem of
for the average observer to
recruited in and around New
Our first set of results come
discrimination solved. Despite
recognize their effects. In the
York City. They were chosen
from the three-person team
low rates of employment
present study, we adopt an
on the basis of their similar
in which a white, Hispanic,
among blacks compared to
experimental audit approach
verbal skills, interactional styles
and black tester applied to
whites, many people are now
to more explicitly identify
and physical attractiveness.
the same set of employers
skeptical that discrimination
patterns of discrimination in
Additionally, testers went
presenting identical
remains a significant cause
the low-wage labor...