Reddit reviews Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
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>And as I said, I do not believe 10/15 to be a significant difference in applications to be indicative of racism, particularly when these applications are garbage data flooding a hiring managers desk with identical resumes.
Care to give a quantitative, statistical reason as to why that's not a significant difference? Because otherwise, your notion that it's the result of flooding an employer with identical resumes is bunk. How would that lead to white candidates getting more call-backs?
> If you cannot provide them that's fairly indicative that it is not easily verifiable, no?
Here's a start. Please let me know how each one of these fails to meet your exacting standards:
The Mark of a Criminal Record
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market
Sequencing Disadvantage: Barriers to Employment Facing Young Black and White Men with Criminal Records
Race at Work: Realities of Race and Criminal Record in the NYC Job Market (PDF)
Race and the Invisible Hand (book)
[Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (book)] (https://www.amazon.com/Marked-Race-Crime-Finding-Incarceration/dp/0226644847/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492906619&sr=8-1&keywords=Marked%3A+Race%2C+Crime%2C+and+Finding+Work+in+an+Era+of+Mass+Incarceration)
Heres a link to the book, "Marked," by the sociologist, Devah Pager, who did the study. Its a really great book.
http://www.amazon.com/Marked-Race-Crime-Finding-Incarceration/dp/0226644847