The Impact of Linguistic Exclusion on Corporate Hiring Decisions
This paper explores the role of media, particularly, the quality of media content, in the formation of social prejudice against a group. Firstly, we try to explain the reasons behind social discrimination usually conducted by haves against marginalized groups have nots of the society using the theories from behavioral economics. Secondly, we come up with a simple probability model to frame the negative impact of linguistic exclusion by media discriminatory media content on corporate hiring decisions. Lastly we conclude with a discussion on economic losses due to the discriminatory practices while hiring employees in such institutions.
heuristics, linguistic exclusion, social categorisation, stereotype threat
2580-2583
Issue-5
Volume-3
Madhuri Singh | Rohit