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Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions. When do they Arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - 2013
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual pure ethnic gap. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292692
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Pure ethnic gaps in educational attainment and school to work transitions: When do they arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - 2013
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual pure ethnic gap. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293133
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Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005
Baert, Stijn - 2017
This chapter aims to provide an exhaustive list of all (i.e. 90) correspondence studies on hiring discrimination that … of the estimated treatment effects is tabulated. In addition, a discussion of the findings by discrimination ground is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653466
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Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?
Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016
integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479281
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Wage Subsidies and Hiring Chances for the Disabled: Some Causal Evidence
Baert, Stijn - 2014
We evaluate the effectiveness of wage subsidies as a policy instrument to integrate disabled individuals into the labour market. To identify causal effects, we conduct a large-scale field experiment in Belgium. Our results show that the likelihood of a disabled candidate receiving a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398234
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Is there less discrimination in occupations where recruitment is difficult?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 68 (2015) 3, pp. 467-500
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281968
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Getting grey hairs in the labour market : an alternative experiment on age discrimination
Baert, Stijn; Norga, Jennifer; Thuy, Yannick; Van … - 2015
This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the … pairs. When applying this design to the Belgium case, we find that age discrimination is fundamentally heterogeneous by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308976
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380854
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Is ethnic discrimination due to distaste or statistics?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie - 2014
-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380855
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Wage subsidies and hiring chances for the disabled : some causal evidence
Baert, Stijn - 2014
We evaluate the effectiveness of wage subsidies as a policy instrument to integrate disabled individuals into the labour market. To identify causal effects, we conduct a large-scale field experiment in Belgium. Our results show that the likelihood of a disabled candidate receiving a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380858