I've been tinkering with a -finally finished- metadataset on hiring discrimination, representing roughly 1.4 million fictitious applications, and the power of contemporary meta-regression methods combined with tools such as {marginaleffects} really struck me.

Glad to have been part of this stimulating workshop. Thanks to @vatsalecon.bsky.social, @sanchariroy.bsky.social, Javier García-Brazales, Sonia Oreffice, and others at @exeter.ac.uk for hosting.

A draft paper on our research into the cyclicality of hiring discrimination should be available soon.

Flemish professors working on US-linked projects recently received a questionnaire from the US embassy in Belgium surveying them on university diversity policies. Guess we're going to have to charge a 300% ‘nosy-survey’ tariff now. #econsky #academicsky www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20...

Last week, @iza.org World of Labor published our policy article on hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups. In this article, we summarise insights from meta-research on the issue.

New IZA World of Labor article by @louislippens.be et al. on hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups: wol.iza.org/articles/hir...

We have at least one open PhD position in our Labour Economics and Welfare research area (90% research, 10% teaching). Feel free to reach out for more details. Apply until 18 February 2025. #EconSky

WFH creates opportunities for people with a physical disability, who might otherwise not have been able to work full-time.

Prof. Attila Lindner briefly presented this at #EALE2024 along with some key insights that, at the margin, minimum wages are primarily passed through to consumers and improve firm efficiency. Also interesting to see meta-science increasingly permeating economics.

Black Americans' employment rate exceeded (narrowly) white Americans' rate in Dec 2023, only the 2nd time in 52 years of data

This graph shows the ratio of Black to white Americans' rates, with Black Americans' rate stably about 5 to 10 percent lower than whites' rate, until recently.

When a minimum wage increases: "Racial inequality decreases because firms disproportionately reduce callbacks to lower-quality white applicants who benefited from discrimination under lower minimum wages."
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Really exciting and interesting work on labour market competition and its diminishing effects on wage inequality.

New article in Nature Human Behavior co-led by Aaron Nichols! In a Registered Report, we ran a field study to test whether images of organizational diversity impact the quality and quantity of applicants from majority and minority groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good piece by @ryanlcooper.com on the importance of full employment - both for ensuring people are able to find jobs, and for helping improve the quality of those jobs.

I wanted to consolidate a few thoughts on google, misinformation, large language models, enshittification, and the fate of the web as we know it.

It started when @carlzimmer.bsky.social shared this remarkable example of Google being fooled by machine-generated bullshit online.

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If you want to verify that your bsky account is effectively yours and you own a custom domain, then I recommend you follow the steps in the blog post below. (The same applies if you just want a custom handle, like I did, of course 😀.)

Introduction!

I'm a postdoc at Ghent University with an MSc in org. psychology and a joint PhD in economics & sociology. My research focuses mainly on work and the labour market and, more specifically, labour market discrimination.

I highlight some recent research below.