Abel Ghekiere

Vrije Universiteit Brussel | VUB · Department of Sociology (SOCI)

Met dit rapport willen we graag de resultaten van meer dan vier jaar EdisTools onderzoek naar etnische discriminatie en tool-ontwikkeling delen met het brede publiek. Wat zijn de belangrijkste bevindingen uit dit onderzoek? Welke tools hebben wij ontwikkeld, hoe kunnen ze worden gebruikt en waarom?

This study aims to identify rental discrimination on the Flemish rental housing market in Belgium, taking the intersectional nature of discrimination into account. Most discrimination studies focus on unequal access based on one individual discrimination ground. This practice eludes the context of the other discrimination grounds in which rental di...

While field experiments are valuable in their ability to objectively analyse patterns of discrimination, research that focuses on reducing discrimination is systematically lacking. The present study addresses this gap. Building on both cognitive and behavioural processes that steer discriminatory decision-making and insights from diversity literatu...

In this study, we introduce a critical assessment of methodological assumptions made by researchers when using correspondence tests to measure ethnic discrimination. We aim to investigate whether (1) the order in which the applications are sent out, between the test and control person, (2) the conducted matched triad tests, in comparison to matched...

Ethnic discrimination on the housing market has been subject of research for years. While a field experimental approach is widespread, alternative attempts to objectively measure mechanisms of discrimination on the housing market are scarce. In line with labor market research, we stress that to reduce rental discrimination against ethnic minorities...

Het doel van dit onderzoek was om discriminatie op basis van etnische afkomst en seksuele oriëntatie objectief in kaart te brengen op de huurwoningmarkt van Kortrijk. We voerden hiervoor 398 gepaarde correspondentietesten uit op Immoweb. Deze methode stelt ons in staat om na te gaan in welke mate kandidaten minder worden uitgenodigd voor een plaats...

To mitigate ethnic labour market discrimination, it is essential to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms call for different counteracting measures. To this end, we reviewed the recent literature that confronts the theories of taste-based and statistical discrimination against the empirical reality. Whereas the empirical...

Het doel van dit onderzoek was om discriminatie op de private huurwoningmarkt van Brugge in kaart te brengen. Hierbij hebben we twee discriminatiegronden onderzocht: etnische afkomst en inkomensbron. Bij het onderzoeken naar etnische discriminatie hebben we een verder onderscheid gemaakt tussen Syrische en Poolse namen in vergelijking met Belgische...

Introducing a new method, we measure real estate agents’ intentions to act upon a discriminatory request on the housing market. Our results show that realtors are willing to discriminate on request and that the method of mystery mails allows scholars to measure and contextualize these discriminatory intentions in a detailed and elaborate way.

Ethnic discrimination proves to be a persistent problem on the private rental market. However, little attention has been paid to contexts that might impact discrimination on the housing market, partly due to the fact that these factors have not been integrated into a comprehensive study. We aim to investigate whether the types of discriminatory beh...

Het doel van dit onderzoek was om discriminatie door vastgoedmakelaars op de huurwoningmarkt objectief te meten voor vier discriminatiegronden: etnische afkomst, gender, handicap en seksuele oriëntatie. Bij etnische afkomst maakten we verder een onderscheid tussen vier bevolkingsgroepen: Marokkaanse, Turkse, Congolese en Roemeense Antwerpenaren. Bi...

This explorative study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ethnic discrimination. By means of 482 pairwise matched correspondence tests in pre-Covid times and 440 tests in Covid times, we examine discrimination against candidates of Maghrebian and Congolese origin on the housing market of a metropolitan city in Belgium. While the absolu...

To mitigate ethnic labour market discrimination, it is essential to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms call for different counteracting measures. To this end, we reviewed the recent literature that confronts the theories of taste-based and statistical discrimination against the empirical reality. Whereas the empirical...

Sinds 2015 voert Stad Gent een doorgedreven beleid tegen discriminatie op de woningmarkt. Deze ‘Gentse aanpak’ bestond uit een combinatie van training, dialoog en academische, sensibiliserende en juridische praktijktesten onder wetenschappelijke begeleiding. De stad focuste hierbij voornamelijk op de groep van vastgoedmakelaars. De hamvraag is hier...