Discrimination has been one of the significant issues in the contemporary world. Discrimination refers to the unfair or prejudicial behaviour toward various categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of sex, race, or age. Phillip Oreopoulos focused to studying why immigrants who arrive to Canada based upon superior skill, fair extremely poorly in the labour market. Oreopoulous used resumes to study severity of discrimination across various fields of occupations by sending thirteen thousands of randomly altered resumes to Toronto’s web online employment postings.
Audit studies assist the researchers by quantifying the magnitude to which attributes, such as schooling, extracurricular activity, and experience affect response of …show more content…
This shows that there is notable level of discrimination prevalent in Canada.
Second, recruiters value experience in Canada more than Canadian academic level when choosing to interview foreign-born applicants, while possessing a university degree from a more reputable oversea school, or obtaining extra education in Canada does not seem to notably influence the likelihood of a callback. Among resumes with exotic names and oversea education, the callback rate ascends “from 6 percent to 8.5 percent” (167). All employers stated that once an applicant has gathered “four to six years of experience” (168), schooling plays only a small role in determining whether to call back or not for an …show more content…
Yet, it was found that listing additional information — such as speaking French or English — relating to notable attributes not written on the resume slightly rises the callback rate for English-sounding named applicants but presented no effect for foreign-named applicants.
A form of racial discrimination can be taken as an alternative interpretation of evidences presented above. It can be interpreted that racial discrimination is the fundamental underlying problem of current unequal employment opportunities of Canada. Racial discrimination refers to an act that negatively influences an affiliate of a particular racial class due to its membership in that class, and not due to its individual features. All motives behind employer’s decision-making process has an aspect of racial discrimination in
Audit studies assist the researchers by quantifying the magnitude to which attributes, such as schooling, extracurricular activity, and experience affect response of …show more content…
This shows that there is notable level of discrimination prevalent in Canada.
Second, recruiters value experience in Canada more than Canadian academic level when choosing to interview foreign-born applicants, while possessing a university degree from a more reputable oversea school, or obtaining extra education in Canada does not seem to notably influence the likelihood of a callback. Among resumes with exotic names and oversea education, the callback rate ascends “from 6 percent to 8.5 percent” (167). All employers stated that once an applicant has gathered “four to six years of experience” (168), schooling plays only a small role in determining whether to call back or not for an …show more content…
Yet, it was found that listing additional information — such as speaking French or English — relating to notable attributes not written on the resume slightly rises the callback rate for English-sounding named applicants but presented no effect for foreign-named applicants.
A form of racial discrimination can be taken as an alternative interpretation of evidences presented above. It can be interpreted that racial discrimination is the fundamental underlying problem of current unequal employment opportunities of Canada. Racial discrimination refers to an act that negatively influences an affiliate of a particular racial class due to its membership in that class, and not due to its individual features. All motives behind employer’s decision-making process has an aspect of racial discrimination in