Baert, Stijn; De Visschere, Sarah; Schoors, Koen; Omey, Eddy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from fictitious unemployed candidates to real vacancies in Belgium. Within each pair, one candidate cites depression as the reason for her/his unemployment, whereas the other candidate...
