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 … applicants disclosing former depression are treated unfavourably is rejected. However, if we break up the data by the gender of …