Hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups

Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert and Brecht Neyt

World of Labour, 2025, No 515, 515

Abstract: Over the past decades, academics worldwide have conducted experiments with fictitious job applications to measure discrimination in hiring. This discrimination leads to underutilization of labor market potential and higher unemployment rates for individuals from vulnerable groups. Collectively, the insights from the published research suggest that three groups face more discrimination than ethnic minorities: people with disabilities, less physically attractive people, and older people. The discrimination found in Western economies generally persists across countries and is stable over time, although some variation exists.

Keywords: discrimination; labor market; hiring; experimental economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J14 J15 J16 J23 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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