Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration … unemployment durations. In addition, these participants rate the job candidates on statements central to four theoretical … mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing …

-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co …

In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination …

integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them …

This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU‐SILC micro data … simultaneously estimate unemployment duration by a mixed proportional hazard model, and the probability of being an outright … the causal influence of different types of housing tenure on unemployment duration, we use instrumental variables. Our …

We identify hiring discrimination against former juvenile delinquents in a direct way. To this end we conduct a field … experiment in the Belgian labour market. We find that labour market discrimination is indeed a major barrier in the transition to … percent less callback compared to their counterparts without a criminal record. This discrimination is more outspoken among …