The Impact of Patronymic Attractiveness on Employability

Abstract

We link patronymics (first and last names presented together) to success in the job market by investigating the influence of name attractiveness on employability. Using data from a recruitment agency, we tested (binomial regression) for effects associated with age, gender, and name attractiveness on job interview outcomes. We found that candidates with more attractive patronymics were more likely to be retained by employers.

KEYWORDS:

• Patronymic
• attractiveness
• evaluation

Notes

^aA higher score is associated with a more positive evaluation of the patronymic.

Note. B is the unstandardized coefficient; E.S. is the standard error of B; 2-W is the Wald Chi-square with the ddl (degrees of freedom) and p (probability) associated with the value of the chi-square; Exp(B) is the odds ratio; and 95% is the confidence interval for this odds ratio.