At the same time, as argued by Azmat and Petrongolo (2014) in their overview
of experimental advances in the study of gender differences in the labour market
“it should be stressed that existing [...] correspondence evidence on gender
discrimination is [...] still open to this criticism.” The only attempt to fill this gap
we are aware of, is Carlsson et al. (2014) who apply Neumark’s (2012)
econometric framework to a number of already published correspondence studies
among which one targeted at gender discrimination. In the present study, we
complement their evidence by an empirical investigation of the HS critique in the
context of gender discrimination using the same framework but another – and in
our opinion theoretically more convincing – identifying assumption.