Louis Lippens
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Louis Lippens

Louis Lippens

I am an FWO postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Ghent University. I hold a joint PhD in Economics and Sociology from Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. My research focuses primarily on hiring discrimination and typically relies on experimental methods and meta-analysis. Other research interests include unemployment and inactivity, alternative work arrangements, and the rising role of (Gen)AI in the labour market. I am affiliated with UGent@Work and IZA@LISER, and I serve as a member of the Flemish Public Employment Services (VDAB) Ethics Board.

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Are employers eager to hire the unemployed?

unemployment
hiring
stigma
labour-economics

A meta-analysis of 28 international studies shows employers are reluctant to hire long-term unemployed applicants but prefer short-term unemployed over currently employed candidates.

5 Sept 2024
3 min

Computer says ‘no’: Hiring bias in GenAI

generative-ai
discrimination
hiring
algorithmic-bias

A simulated CV screening experiment shows that ChatGPT discriminates based on ethnic identity when evaluating job applicants, though often less than human recruiters.

3 Nov 2023
5 min

The worldwide state of hiring discrimination

discrimination
meta-analysis
hiring
labour-economics

A meta-analysis of correspondence audits conducted worldwide between 2005 and 2020 maps hiring discrimination across discrimination grounds, regions, and time.

4 Jan 2023
5 min

Ethnic labour market discrimination: Taste or statistics?

discrimination
ethnicity
labour-economics

What drives ethnic hiring discrimination, employer beliefs about group statistics or personal aversion? A look at the scientific evidence and some economic remedies.

10 Jun 2022
6 min

Top-ranked selection procedures to hire the best-performing candidate

hiring
personnel-selection
labour-economics

A large-scale re-evaluation of selection procedures reshuffles the ranking: structured interviews replace cognitive ability tests as the top predictor of job performance.

16 Jan 2022
6 min
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