That result is boring : http://chrisblattman.com/2011/02/07/are-amelie-and-gregoire-more-employable-than-aishah-and-abdul
What is definitively *not* boring, and at the moment surprisingly little talked about, is the result of testing the use of anonymous resume.

The very serious French CREST http://www.crest.fr/ has just published the results :
– without anonymous resume : One immigrant out of 10 gets an interview against one out of 8 for the rest of the population
– with anonymous resume : One immigrant out of 22 gets an interview against one out of 6 for the rest of the population

On the other hand anonymous resume was effective to reduce discrimimnation against women and older candidates (I believe it’s quite different in the US, but there’s a very strong tendency to not recruit an aged candidate in France) but the study also concludes that the major problem here is the tendency of recruiter to select people who are similar to themselves, so that it will be circumvented by having more diversity in recruiters (and that without an anonymous resume, it’s the older recruiter who whill recrute the older candidate, the women who will recrute another woman, so that there’s not so much to gain from the anonymous resume)

Here are the papers in French :
http://www.crest.fr/images/CVanonyme/synthese.pdf
http://www.crest.fr/images/CVanonyme/rapport.pdf

An earlier test was finding positive effects from anonymous resume :
http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/France_Monde/actualite/Secteur_France_Monde/2009/11/04/article_la-relance-du-cv-anonyme-peut-s-inspirer.shtml

Some public employee complains that the push to get a significant number of results was so strong that at the end they had to force employeer to accept to receive anonymous resume :
http://www.actuchomage.org/forum/index.php?f=10&t=41002&rb_v=viewtopic

Isn’t the 1 out of 8 result for non-anonymous resume surprisingly good WRT employers not discriminating ? That’s a bit suspicious.