While many firms have set ambitious goals to increase diversity in their ranks, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field experiment to test several hypotheses on effective means to attract minority candidates for top professional careers. By randomly varying the content in recruiting materials of a major financial services corporation with more than 10,000 employees, we find that signaling explicit interest in employee diversity more than doubles the interest in openings among racial minority candidates, as well as the likelihood that they apply and are selected. Impacts on gender diversity are less sharp and generally not significant.

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增加工作场所的多样性：来自财富 500 强公司招聘实验的证据

虽然许多公司设定了雄心勃勃的目标，以增加其队伍的多样性，但缺乏有效方法来实现这些目标的经验证据。我们使用自然现场实验来检验几个关于吸引少数族裔候选人从事顶级职业的有效手段的假设。通过随机改变一家拥有 10,000 多名员工的大型金融服务公司招聘材料的内容，我们发现对员工多样性的明确兴趣使少数族裔候选人的空缺兴趣以及他们申请和申请的可能性增加了一倍以上。被选中。对性别多样性的影响不那么明显，通常也不显着。