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Introduction
I work as an FWO postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Department of Economics. My research focuses on labour market discrimination. Other research interests include unemployment and inactivity, alternative work arrangements, and the role of AI in the labour market. I mainly rely on experiments, survey designs, and systematic reviews. I use statistical techniques such as linear and logistic regression, meta-analysis and meta-regression, and multilevel modelling.
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August 2019 - July 2023
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- PhD Student
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- In my PhD thesis, I examined labour market discrimination, quantifying its prevalence and exploring its mechanisms through economic and sociological lenses.
August 2019 - July 2023
Education
August 2019 - August 2023
August 2019 - August 2023
September 2016 - June 2017
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Notwithstanding the improved integration of various minority groups in the workforce, unequal treatment in hiring still hinders many individuals’ access to the labour market. To tackle this inaccessibility, it is essential to know which and to what extent minority groups face hiring discrimination. This meta-analysis synthesises a quasi-exhaustive...
Previous research has demonstrated that context matters in understanding unequal treatment in hiring—for example, some studies have illustrated that hiring discrimination is low in large organisations or high in public-facing occupations. Following a review of the recent literature on ethnic hiring discrimination, we identified fourteen plausible m...
Large language models offer significant potential for increasing labour productivity, such as streamlining personnel selection, but raise concerns about perpetuating systemic biases embedded into their pre-training data. This study explores the potential ethnic and gender bias of ChatGPT—a chatbot producing human-like responses to language tasks—in...
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...
At a time when numerous organisations are urging a return to the office while many employees prefer to continue teleworking, it is crucial to ascertain the optimal level of telework intensity. In the present study, we determine this ideal level with respect to self-rated employee attitudes, behaviour, well-being, social relations and professional g...
Background
Compressed schedules, where workers perform longer daily hours to enjoy additional days off, are increasingly promoted as a workplace well-being intervention. Nevertheless, their implications for work-related well-being outcomes, such as recovery from work and burnout risk, are understudied. This gap leaves employers with little evidence...
Regional mobility is crucial for addressing labour shortages, as jobseekers from one region may fill vacancies in another region with few local candidates. However, this requires a willingness amongst employers to consider candidates from across regional borders. This study examines the influence of regional identity on hiring decisions in the Belg...
Sustaining social security systems amidst an ageing population requires (re)integrating the unemployed and inactive into work. However, stigma surrounding non-employment history can create barriers to finding a job. Whilst unemployment stigma is well-documented, inactivity stigma remains under the radar. To address whether, why, and when inactivity...
As age discrimination hampers the OECD’s ambition to extend the working population, an efficient anti-discrimination policy targeted at the right employers is critical. Therefore, the context in which age discrimination is most prevalent must be identified. In this study, we thoroughly review the current theoretical arguments and empirical findings...
Background: Compressed schedules, where workers perform longer daily hours to enjoy additional days off, are increasingly promoted as a workplace well-being intervention. Nevertheless, their implications for work-related well-being outcomes, such as recovery from work and burnout risk, are understudied. This gap leaves employers with little evidenc...
Disparities in labour market outcomes between parents and non-parents arise partly from discriminatory practices. Understanding these unfair practices is essential for fostering workplace equity. Our systematic review of the literature summarises employer discrimination based on various manifestations of parenthood in multiple labour market outcome...
Labour markets struggle to be inclusive, while diversity is increasing. This literature review examines labour market challenges faced by first- and second-generation migrants in Belgium. We systematically review articles published between 2010 and 2023 in the Web of Science Core Collection to delineate underlying mechanisms, associated solutions,...
An implicit trait policy (ITP) on intercultural competence reflects a worker’s self-beliefs regarding effectiveness of behavior in an intercultural work situation. A worker’s ITP thus integrates the worker’s competence on endorsement or selection of effective behavior like intensifying intercultural contacts and avoidance or rejection of ineffectiv...
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?
Policymakers' push for higher employment rates requires the activation of long-term unemployed jobseekers and inactive persons. However, stigma related to unemployment or inactivity can hinder their hiring chances when applying for a job. This systematic literature review investigates whether, when, and why periods of not working are penalised in h...
Labour markets struggle to be inclusive, while diversity is increasing. This literature review examines labour market challenges faced by first- and second-generation migrants in Belgium. We systematically review articles published between 2010 and 2023 in the Web of Science Core Collection to delineate underlying mechanisms, associated solutions,...
Large language models offer significant potential for increasing labour productivity, such as streamlining personnel selection, but raise concerns about perpetuating systemic biases embedded into their pre-training data. This study explores the potential ethnic and gender bias of ChatGPT—a chatbot producing human-like responses to language tasks—in...
This letter adds to the literature on the importance of telework experience in employee evaluation by leveraging the telework experience accumulated during the COVID-19 crisis. We conducted a follow-up survey on the evaluation of telework exactly three years after our initial data collection in 2020. We find evidence of a learning curve regarding s...
As age discrimination hampers the OECD's ambition to extend the working population, an efficient anti-discrimination policy targeted at the right employers is critical. Therefore, the context in which age discrimination is most prevalent must be identified. In this study, we thoroughly review the current theoretical arguments and empirical findings...
56 Sinds de jaren 1970 wordt gepleit om voltijds werk op minder dagen mogelijk te maken. Ondanks de populariteit van gecomprimeerde werkschema's en hun recente introductie op de Belgische arbeidsmarkt, identificeerden eerdere studies naast voordelen ook risico's van dergelijke arbeidstijdregelingen. Echter, omdat het leeuwendeel van de veldstudies...
Job burnout affects countless workers and constitutes a major issue in working life. Prevention strategies such as offering part-time options and shorter working weeks have been widely advocated to address this issue. However, the relationship between shorter work regimes and burnout risk has not yet been investigated across diverse working populat...
Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not yet found a satisfying answer. With this study, we aim...
Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not yet found a satisfying answer. With this study, we aim...
Appendix B of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104315.
Appendix A of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104315
In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the names used for ethnic minorities in various experiments may have also signaled low socioeconomic class. T...
Naar aanleiding van onze Summer School rond welzijn op het werk namen we een bevraging af bij een representatieve steekproef van 1.009 Vlamingen om na te gaan hoe het gesteld is met het welzijn op het werk van de Vlaamse werknemer. In deze Story @ UGent @ Work bespreken we de meest opmerkelijke cijfers en duiden die vanuit recent wetenschappelijk o...
While a considerable number of employees across the globe are being forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 crisis, it is a guessing game as to how they are experiencing this current surge in telework. Therefore, we examined employee perceptions of telework on various life and career aspects, distinguishing between typical and extended telewor...
Op 3 mei 2022 publiceerden we een Story @ UGent @ Work omtrent inactiviteit (i.e. personen die noch werken, noch werk zoeken) in België, op basis van de nieuwste Eurostat-cijfers. Dit kreeg toen brede aandacht in de media en in de communicatie van verschillende beleidsmensen, zoals parlementairen, partijvoorzitters en regeringsleden.
Een vraag die...
De ambitie om de werkzaamheidsgraad te verhogen is in ons land een rode draad doorheen de regeerakkoorden op federaal en gewestelijk niveau. Om die ambitie waar te maken, kan het beleid zich richten op de activering van werkzoekenden en inactieven. Die laatste groep is duidelijk de grootste. Toch is er veel minder aandacht voor hen. Een nieuwe Stor...
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...
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.
Notwithstanding the improved integration of various minority groups in the workforce, unequal treatment in hiring still hinders many individuals' access to the labour market. To tackle this inaccessibility, it is essential to know which and to what extent minority groups face hiring discrimination. This meta-analysis synthesises a quasi-exhaustive...
Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a...
Dit rapport presenteert de gehanteerde onderzoeksmethode en de belangrijkste bevindingen van een correspondentie-experiment naar discriminatie op de Gentse arbeidsmarkt op basis van etniciteit, gezondheid, functiebeperking, transgender identiteit en leeftijd in opdracht van de Stad Gent die werd uitgevoerd tussen december 2020 en mei 2021. In totaa...
Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a...
Dit rapport presenteert de gehanteerde onderzoeksmethode en de belangrijkste bevindingen van een nulmeting met een correspondentie-experiment naar discriminatie op de Antwerpse arbeidsmarkt op basis van etniciteit, leeftijd en seksuele geaardheid in opdracht van de Stad Antwerpen die werd uitgevoerd tussen februari 2020 en april 2021. In totaal wer...
This study is the first in the world to investigate the expected impact of the COVID-19 crisis on career outcomes and career aspirations. To this end, high-quality survey research with a relevant sample of Flemish (Belgian) employees was conducted. About 21% of them fear losing their jobs due to the crisis—14% are concerned that they will even lose...
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...
While a considerable number of employees across the globe are being forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 crisis, it is a guessing game as to how they are experiencing this current surge in telework. Therefore, we examined employee perceptions of telework on various life and career aspects, distinguishing between typical and extended telewor...
This study is the first in the world to investigate the expected impact of the COVID-19 crisis on career outcomes and career aspirations. To this end, high-quality survey research with a relevant panel of Belgian employees was conducted. About 21% of them fear losing their jobs due to the crisis-14% are concerned that they will even lose their jobs...
While a considerable number of employees across the globe are being forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 crisis, it is a guessing game as to how they are experiencing this current surge in telework. Therefore, we examined employee perceptions of telework on various life and career aspects, distinguishing between typical and extended telewor...
Since the early years of test development, researchers have explored numerous ways to shorten psychological tests – a recently revived trend. In my master's thesis I have researched the psychometric qualities of a short-form intelligence test for personnel selection, where time-efficiency and the ability to predict an applicant’s future job perform...
