Louis Lippens

Louis Lippens
Ghent University | UGhent · Department of Economics

PhD
Postdoctoral researcher in Labour Economics at Ghent University

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Introduction
My research interests relate to labour market discrimination, labour demand and supply, and personnel selection. I mainly employ audit experiments, vignette study designs and surveys. My statistical tool set includes linear and logistic regression analysis, meta-analysis and meta-regression techniques, reliability and validity analysis, and structural equation modeling.
Additional affiliations
August 2019 - present
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Position
  • PhD Student
August 2019 - present
Ghent University
Position
  • PhD Student
Description
  • In my doctoral research, I investigate the interplay of conscious and unconscious attitudes, intentions, personality traits and contextual variations in shaping discriminatory behaviour towards ethnic minorities in the field of labour. The valorisation of the EdisTools research project, in which I participate, lies in the development of practitioner tools to increase awareness concerning and reduce ethnic labour market discrimination.
Education
August 2019 - August 2023
Ghent University
Field of study
  • Economics, Labour Economics
August 2019 - August 2023
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Field of study
  • Sociology
September 2016 - June 2017
Vlerick Business School
Field of study
  • General Management

Publications

Publications (33)
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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...
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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...
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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...
Preprint
Large language models offer significant potential for optimising professional activities, such as streamlining personnel selection procedures. However, concerns exist about these models perpetuating systemic biases embedded into their pre-training data. This study explores whether ChatGPT, a chatbot producing human-like responses to language tasks,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Data
Appendix B of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104315.
Data
Appendix A of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104315
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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...
Technical Report
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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...
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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...
Technical Report
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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...
Technical Report
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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...
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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.
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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...
Technical Report
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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...
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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...
Technical Report
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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...
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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...
Preprint
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Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to different counteracting measures. To this end, we reviewed the recent literature that confronts the seminal theo...
Preprint
Full-text available
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...
Preprint
Full-text available
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...
Preprint
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...
Thesis
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...

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