Racial and gender discrimination in Singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study.

Racial and gender discrimination in Singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study.

This paper examines the occurrence of discrimination on racial and gender bases in the Singapore rental housing market. The procedure involved using owner preferences provided on internet property listings to measure the incidence of discrimination. We also investigated the effect of owner preferenc...

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Main Authors: Teo, Hui Qi., Yusra Mohd Yusoff.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50824
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-508242019-12-10T14:26:35Z Racial and gender discrimination in Singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study. Teo, Hui Qi. Yusra Mohd Yusoff. School of Humanities and Social Sciences Walter Edgar Theseira DRNTU::Social sciences This paper examines the occurrence of discrimination on racial and gender bases in the Singapore rental housing market. The procedure involved using owner preferences provided on internet property listings to measure the incidence of discrimination. We also investigated the effect of owner preferences on the price of rental units. Our findings indicate gender discrimination in favour of female applicants exists in the form of differential availability of housing units but without differential rental price. Our results however, do not provide evidence on any prevailing racial discrimination. Bachelor of Arts 2012-11-15T08:19:50Z 2012-11-15T08:19:50Z 2012 2012 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50824 en Nanyang Technological University 33 p. application/pdf
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Teo, Hui Qi.
Yusra Mohd Yusoff.
Racial and gender discrimination in Singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study.
description This paper examines the occurrence of discrimination on racial and gender bases in the Singapore rental housing market. The procedure involved using owner preferences provided on internet property listings to measure the incidence of discrimination. We also investigated the effect of owner preferences on the price of rental units. Our findings indicate gender discrimination in favour of female applicants exists in the form of differential availability of housing units but without differential rental price. Our results however, do not provide evidence on any prevailing racial discrimination.
author2 School of Humanities and Social Sciences
author_facet School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Teo, Hui Qi.
Yusra Mohd Yusoff.
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author Teo, Hui Qi.
Yusra Mohd Yusoff.
author_sort Teo, Hui Qi.
title Racial and gender discrimination in Singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study.
title_short Racial and gender discrimination in Singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study.
title_full Racial and gender discrimination in Singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study.
title_fullStr Racial and gender discrimination in Singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study.
title_full_unstemmed Racial and gender discrimination in Singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study.
title_sort racial and gender discrimination in singapore’s rental housing market : an empirical study.
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