Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret

doi:10.1186/2193-9039-1-12

Table 13 Marginal effects of the determinants of the callback patterns of firms in response to paired Han and minority applicants

From: Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Multinomial Probit Statistics:
Number of Observations			944
Wald Chi2(40)			293.26
Prob chi2			0.000
Log Likelihood			−740.243
Average Marginal Effects on Predicted Outcomes:	Panel A: Firms Call Back Only the Han		Panel B: Firms Call Back Only the Minority		Panel C: Firms Call Back Both Applicants
Control Variables	dy/dx	z	dy/dx	z	dy/dx	z
Indicator of Ethnic Composition of Paired Applicants
Han-Tibetan pair of applicants	0.084	2.38	−0.100	−4.83	0.016	0.044
Han-Uiguhr pair of applicants	0.045	1.27	−0.089	−4.62	0.044	1.21
Indicators of Potentially Preferable Resume Characteristics within an Applicant Pair
Only Han applicant had single previous job	−0.013	−0.36	0.003	0.17	0.010	0.26
Only Han applicant had local education	0.118	3.31	−0.010	−0.52	−0.108	−2.93
Only minority applicant had single previous job	−0.089	−2.43	0.027	1.45	0.062	1.67
Only minority applicant had local education	−0.109	−2.99	0.002	0.10	0.107	2.90
Base cases:same job histories/ education location
Indicator of Advertised Occupation
Firm advertising accounting position	−0.020	−0.49	−0.092	−3.68	0.111	2.72
Firm advertising administrative assistant position	−0.169	−5.45	−0.012	−0.75	0.181	5.69
Base case: Firm advertising sales position
Indicator of Location of Job Posting
Chengdu	0.212	5.65	−0.153	−5.48	−0.059	−1.47
Kunming	0.014	0.31	0.005	0.26	−0.019	−0.43
Urumqi	−0.161	−0.92	0.211	3.86	−0.049	−0.28
Shenzhen	0.219	5.20	−0.063	−2.79	−0.157	−3.56
Hohhot	−0.218	−1.72	−0.072	−1.45	0.290	2.39
Base case: Nanjing
Indicator of Firm Ownership Type
Firm under joint ownership	0.008	0.13	−0.058	−1.59	0.050	0.78
Firm under foreign ownership	0.011	0.21	−0.115	−2.77	0.104	2.00
Firm state-owned	−0.138	−1.80	−0.026	−0.64	0.164	2.15
Type of firm ownership unknown	−0.061	−0.71	0.036	0.92	0.025	0.28
Base case: firm privately owned
Indicator of Firm Size
Small firm < 50 employees	0.013	0.35	−0.001	−0.06	−0.012	−0.31
Large firm > 500 employees	0.045	1.17	−0.007	−0.30	−0.038	−0.97
Firm size unknown	0.143	0.81	0.134	2.36	−0.277	−1.55
Base case: medium sized firm

Notes:
The underlying multinomial probit is estimated for firms making at least one callback.
The estimation is based on the outcome that firms call back both of the paired applicants.

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