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Table 5 Marginal effects of the determinants of interview callbacks received by young women with ethnically-differentiated names in response to applications submitted through Chinese internet job boards

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

Probit Statistics:

 

Number of Observations

21,592

Wald chi2()

404.24

Prob > chi2

0.0000

Log pseudolikelihood

−5,000.56

Actual rate of callbacks

0.064

Average Marginal Effects on Prediction of Callback

Marginal Effects

dy/dx

Std.Err.

z

P>z

Indicator of Ethnicity of Name

 Mongolian

−0.022

0.004

−5.91

0.000

 Uighur

−0.035

0.004

−10.04

0.000

 Tibetan

−0.045

0.003

−13.77

0.000

 base: Han

    

Indicator of Advertised Occupation

 Accounting

−0.021

0.005

−4.39

0.000

 Admin. Assistant

0.017

0.006

312

0.002

 (base: Sales Rep.)

    

Indicator of Job Location

 Chengdu

0.009

0.006

1.51

0.131

 Kunming

0.023

0.007

3.26

0.001

 Urumqi

−0.025

0.012

−2.08

0.037

 Shenzhen

−0.007

0.006

−1.09

0.277

 Hohhot

0.030

0.020

1.51

0.130

 (base: Nanjing)

    

Indicators for Education Received in/out of Province and Job Stabilty

 Locally Educated

0.010

0.003

2.98

0.003

 Only One Previous Job

0.008

0.003

2.54

0.011

  1. Notes: Name ethnicity and occupation are fully interacted in underlying probit.