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Selecting Names for Experiments on Ethnic Discrimination
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Van Borm, Hannah - 2022
ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the … names used for ethnic minorities in various experiments may have also signaled low socioeconomic class. Therefore, in this … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426373
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Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities
Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451222
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Does it pay to care? : prosocial engagement and employment opportunities
Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449875
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Selecting names for experiments on ethnic discrimination
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Borm, Hannah Van - 2022
ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the … names used for ethnic minorities in various experiments may have also signaled low socioeconomic class. Therefore, in this … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358948
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The impact of military work experience on later hiring chances in the civilian labour market: Evidence from a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Balcaen, Pieter - 2013
This study directly assesses the impact of military work experience compared with civilian work experience in similar jobs on the subsequent chances of being hired in the civilian labour market. It does so through a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. A statistical examination of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316154
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Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?
Baert, Stijn - 2013
Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329017
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Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn; Verhofstadt, Elsy - 2013
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 work for former juvenile delinquents. Labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329050
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First Depressed, Then Discriminated Against?
Baert, Stijn; De Visschere, Sarah; Schoors, Koen; Omey, Eddy - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398300
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Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - 2014
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of fictitious male job applications to real vacancies. These applications differ only by the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398342
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409408