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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 09/10/2025

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.

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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 19/06/2025

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.

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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 08/05/2025

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...

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US embassy questions Flemish universities on diversity policy | VRT NWS: news

The American embassy has sent a questionnaire to Flemish universities about their diversity policies, Education Minister Zuhal Demir has confirmed.

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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 04/03/2025

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.

Figure 1 from the IZA World of Labor policy article displaying hiring discrimination estimates for the publication period 2005 until 2020. The graph shows differences in employer callbacks for various vulnerable groups compared to majority reference groups. The x-axis represents the percentage difference in callbacks. Negative values indicate discrimination (fewer callbacks for the vulnerable group). Each group is represented by a square (point estimate) and a ribbon (95% confidence interval). People with disabilities are discriminated against most, followed by less physically attractive people, older people, lesbian women and gay men, and people of a minority race, ethnicity, or national origin.

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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 17/01/2025

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

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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 18/09/2024

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

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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 10/09/2024

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.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 06/01/2024

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.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 21/11/2023

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." research.upjohn.org/up_workingpa...

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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 14/11/2023

Really exciting and interesting work on labour market competition and its diminishing effects on wage inequality.

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Jordan Axt @jordanaxt.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

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...

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

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.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/10/2023

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. 1/n

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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 05/10/2023

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 😀.)

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How to set your domain as your handle

Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.

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Louis Lippens @louislippens.be · 03/10/2023

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.

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Louis Lippens

Louis Lippens, FWO postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University

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