CHILD LABOR IDENTIFICATION
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CHILD LABOR IDENTIFICATION
Differences Between Auditors: Gender and Experience
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While the diverse incidences of child labor that auditors encountered in different countries may mostly be explained by their geographic location, we did also look at the differences between auditors themselves to see if internal factors might explain the divergence.
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• Female auditors in China discovered significantly more child labor than the males
We discovered that in general, auditors’ gender is associated with the number of child labor cases they discovered in the past two years. Figure 7 shows that female auditors generally discovered more child labor cases even when controlling for age and experience. When we looked at this difference by country though, we found that this result is only significant for China. We don’ t have enough information to determine what might be the reasons behind such a disparity, but it is certainly an interesting phenomenon to look further
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into. When we asked some auditors for the possible differences in audit style between male and female auditors, some said female auditors are typically more“ detail oriented” and“ spend more time on each audits than their male counterparts”. Current data, however, is not sufficient to prove such an assumption.
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• Years of experience in auditing is positively correlated with the number of child labor cases auditors discovered in the past two years
When controlling for age, the auditors’ work experience had a significant positive correlation with the number of child labor cases they discovered in the past two years( Figure 8). The more experienced the auditors are, the more likely they are to discover child labor. When we hold the years of experience constant, auditors’ age did not seem to be associated with the number of child labor cases they discovered.
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7 Best Response: Auditors’ Insights on Child Labor in Asia