Ethnic Name Hiring Discrimination
Changing an applicant name from an English-sounding name to an Indian, Pakistani, or Chinese name reduced interview callbacks by 4.4 percentage points (from 15.7% down to 11.3%), meaning English-named applicants were 39% more likely to receive a callback [13, 14, 17]. Resumes with Greek names experienced a statistically significant 4.0 percentage point reduction in callback rates compared to English names [13, 17, 20].