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Louis Lippens

Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Economics; Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)

Contributing to the World of Labor project allows me to share research findings on labour market issues with a wide audience, bridging the gap between academia and the field. This dissemination is crucial to realise the full potential of academic research.

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

FWO Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University

Research interest

Labor Economics, Experimental Economics, Economics of Discrimination

Website

https://louislippens.be/

Past positions

Doctoral Researcher, Ghent University

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Ghent University, 2023 PhD Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2023

Selected publications

  • "The state of hiring discrimination: A meta-analysis of (almost) all recent correspondence experiments." European Economic Review, 151 (2023): 104315 (with S. Vermeiren, and S. Baert).

  • "Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? A systematic review of the empirical evidence." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48:17 (2022): 4243–4276 (with S. Baert, A. Ghekiere, P.-P. Verhaeghe, and E. Derous).

  • "Understanding ethnic hiring discrimination: A contextual analysis of experimental evidence." Labour Economics 85 (2023): 102453 (with A. Dalle, F. D'hondt, P.-P. Verhaeghe, and S. Baert).

  • "Computer says ‘no’: Exploring systemic bias in ChatGPT using an audit approach." Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans 2:1 (2024): 100054.

article(s)

  • Hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups

    Discrimination in hiring based on ethnicity or gender is widely debated but appears in fact less severe than discrimination based on disability, appearance, or age

    Louis LippensStijn BaertBrecht Neyt, February 2025

    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 three groups face more discrimination than ethnic minorities: people with disabilities, less physically attractive people, and older people. The discrimination found in Western economies generally persists across countries and is stable over time, although some variation exists.

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