What’s in a name : a study on gender and name discrimination by Singaporean Employers

• Main Authors: Ho, Daryl Sheng Hui, Hong, Yan Qing, Tan, Jia Hui
• Other Authors: Chew Soon Beng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66944
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...