Do employers in Myanmar prefer workers who accumulated skills in more advanced countries? Evidence from a field experiment

Table 10 Dependent variable: if a resume receives a callback for an interview (software developer/programmer)

	Software developer/programmer
	Local and foreign		Local		Foreign
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Panel A
Foreign experience	0.068	0.076	0.057	0.086	0.095	0.051
Foreign experience	(0.045)	(0.045)*	(0.050)	(0.055)	(0.096)	(0.112)
Constant	0.405	0.458	0.302	0.478	0.667	0.891
Constant	(0.058)***	(0.279)	(0.064)***	(0.287)	(0.107)***	(0.119)***
Controls	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
N	148	148	106	106	42	42
R²	0.005	0.121	0.004	0.122	0.011	0.384
Panel B
Malaysia	0.080	0.110	0.083	0.117	0.111	0.258
Malaysia	(0.076)	(0.079)	(0.082)	(0.090)	(0.141)	(0.160)
Singapore	0.056	0.044	0.031	0.054	0.083	−0.117
Singapore	(0.072)	(0.071)	(0.086)	(0.095)	(0.134)	(0.154)
Constant	0.405	0.438	0.302	0.459	0.667	0.969
Constant	(0.058)***	(0.283)	(0.064)***	(0.291)	(0.108)***	(0.128)***
Controls	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
N	148	148	106	106	42	42
R²	0.005	0.123	0.005	0.124	0.012	0.435

Standard errors (clustered at the company level) are in parentheses. Controls include week fixed effects, resume template fixed effects, resume cover letter fixed effects, gender of an applicant, and a dummy indicating if a resume is associated with an address in a rich neighborhood
*p < 0.10; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01