What’s in a name : a study on gender and name discrimination by Singaporean Employers
We investigated the presence and extent of name and gender discrimination by Singaporean employers through an audit study, where we generated fictitious resumes of Western and Asian sounding names, with equal representation of male and female, high quality and low quality categories. This paper serv...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-669442019-12-10T13:56:23Z What’s in a name : a study on gender and name discrimination by Singaporean Employers Ho, Daryl Sheng Hui Hong, Yan Qing Tan, Jia Hui Chew Soon Beng School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities We investigated the presence and extent of name and gender discrimination by Singaporean employers through an audit study, where we generated fictitious resumes of Western and Asian sounding names, with equal representation of male and female, high quality and low quality categories. This paper serves as the pioneer audit study on name and gender discrimination in Singapore, where only gender discrimination has been sparingly explored by previous researchers. A total of 2,200 resumes were sent out to nine occupations over three months, where employer callbacks were recorded. We conducted two Probit regressions and found that employers generally preferred Western name applicants to Asian name applicants. Overall, our results show that name and resume quality do affect the likelihood of callback, while the Average Marginal Effects (AMEs) of Grade Point Average (GPA) and relevant internship have the most significant effect on probability of callback for all resumes Bachelor of Arts 2016-05-05T11:41:33Z 2016-05-05T11:41:33Z 2016 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66944 en Nanyang Technological University 41 p. application/pdf application/pdf |
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We investigated the presence and extent of name and gender discrimination by Singaporean employers through an audit study, where we generated fictitious resumes of Western and Asian sounding names, with equal representation of male and female, high quality and low quality categories. This paper serves as the pioneer audit study on name and gender discrimination in Singapore, where only gender discrimination has been sparingly explored by previous researchers. A total of 2,200 resumes were sent out to nine occupations over three months, where employer callbacks were recorded. We conducted two Probit regressions and found that employers generally preferred Western name applicants to Asian name applicants. Overall, our results show that name and resume quality do affect the likelihood of callback, while the Average Marginal Effects (AMEs) of Grade Point Average (GPA) and relevant internship have the most significant effect on probability of callback for all resumes |
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