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The subsidy trap : explaining the unsatisfactory effectiveness of hiring subsidies for the senior unemployed

Dalle, Axana; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Baert, Stijn - 2024

estimations. These candidates differed experimentally in their eligibility for a hiring subsidy targeted at the unemployed aged 58 … or over. Our results indicate that the subsidy has a negative effect on their hiring outcomes. This adverse effect is …

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Is ethnic discrimination due to distaste or statistics?

Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie - 2014

Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co-workers and customers will prefer collaborating...

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Do employer preferences contribute to sticky floors?

Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Deschacht, Nick - 2014

We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...

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Why making promotion after a burnout is like boiling the ocean

Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn; Rooman, Claudia; … - 2021

Recent studies have explored hiring discrimination as an obstacle to former burnout patients. Many workers, however, return to the same employer, where they face an even more severe aftermath of burnout syndrome: promotion discrimination. To our knowledge, we are the first to directly address...

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Costly mistakes: why and when spelling errors in resumes jeopardise interview chances

Sterkens, Philippe; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; … - 2021

Earlier research has associated spelling errors in resumes with reduced hiring chances. However, the analysis of hiring penalties due to spelling errors has thus far been restricted to white-collar occupations and relatively high numbers of errors per resume. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying...

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Homosexuality's signalling function in job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK

Sterkens, Philippe; Dalle, Axana; Wuyts, Joey; Pauwels, Ines - 2022

To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers behind employers' evaluations of gay men and lesbian women. Therefore, we conduct an extensive vignette experiment among 404 genuine recruiters, for which we test...

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Why is unemployment duration a sorting criterion in hiring?

Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; Di … - 2017

mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing … theory, and rational herding. We use the resulting data to estimate a multiple mediation model, in which the effect of the … related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing theory, and …

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What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?

Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; … - 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...

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A poisoned gift? : the hireability signals of an income-support program for the senior unemployed

Dalle, Axana; Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn - 2023

Many OECD countries invest heavily in labour-market programs to prolong careers. Although active labour-market programs designed for this purpose have frequently been evaluated, less is known about the employment impact of more passive regimes that make labour-market participation later in life...

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Selecting names for experiments on ethnic discrimination

Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Borm, Hannah Van - 2022

In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the names used for ethnic minorities in various...

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