A distinction and he talked more about this yeah so the university of chicago decision really groundwork breaking our research right on this and they sent out resumes to over 5000 different employers across private Public Sector Large Companies medium size Small Businesses they were trying to get a sense of the amount of discrimination in the labor market whats really important to know is in the resumes that they sent out it would be the same resumes they would just switch the names right the other thing that they would do is they would stress you know augment the strength of the quality of the resume right so increase the Quality Institution depth of experience length of experience so on and so forth and what they found was if you have you know. A black you know white sounding name you know your callbacks would be 50 percent higher right on the other thing that they found was you know if you were at a white sounding name as the strength and quality of their resume increased right beca
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