, for the National Bureau of Economic Research based in San Francisco, CA.Neumark uses extensive statistical data from a national lawsuit involving age-based hiring discrimination at a restaurant chain.
Neumark found that older applicants were selected for job interviews “at equal or higher rates to younger applicants” when their age was unknown. Neumark said the research eliminates alternatives other than age discrimination because the applicants were asked a battery of questions that were created by the employer to satisfy specific requirements of the job and the applicants had been selected based upon their responses. “[I]t is hard to imagine what legitimate, job-related difference is revealed in the interview that could justify the age difference in job offer rates that occurs at the second stage…” he writes.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has long held that it is not discriminatory per se for an employer to ask a job applicant’s age, though the EEOC states such a request might be used as evidence in an age discrimination lawsuit.
Age discrimination is real and it is a problem. Let people work that are willing and able regardless of age.
JumpingTraci Tweet is misleading 😊 The mentioned research is based on a restaurant chain in the U.S., and probably subjects are people who applied to be a waiter. For academic researches in social sciences it is o hard to generalize the findings in many cases... So, no need to worry 🤓
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