Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process

Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on job. By comparing trainee performance for newly hired conditional competitive civil service examination scores French public sector workers, we test whether women and men with same score exhibit similar a job-related programme. Both contain anonymous non-anonymous components that observe separately. We find by end of programme (first year employment), are outperforming both written oral evaluations, finding holds conditionally unconditionally results. According to further analysis, however, it is anonymously graded essay common culture that, unlike other CSE components, disadvantages this particular context.