Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92242 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA Journal of Migration [ISSN:] 2193-9039 [Volume:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2012 [Pages:] 1-24
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to Internet job board applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant differences in callback rates by ethnicity. These differences vary systematically across ethnic groups. Not all firms discriminate-approximately half treat all candidates equally. State-owned firms are much less likely than others to discriminate in favor of Han candidates and both state- and foreign-owned firms are significantly more likely to treat candidates equally than do privately owned firms.
Subjects: 
Chinese firms
hiring
discrimination
ethnicity
Internet job boards
resume correspondence audit study
JEL: 
J71
J23
J15
O52
P25
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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