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Is there a rating bias of job candidates based on gender and parenthood? A laboratory experiment on hiring for an accounting job
Acta Sociologica Abstract Biased practices by employers have been suggested as one possible cause for the observed gender disparities in labor market outcomes. While US-based laboratory experiments show
Input and output in distributive theory
Noûs 2021 Abstract Distributive theories evaluate distributions of goods based on candidate recipients’ characteristics, e.g. how well off candidates are, how deserving they are, and whether they fare b
Researchers wanted for a project on children's living conditions
The Institute for Futures Studies (IF), Stockholm, is appointing one or two researchers (sociologist/social scientist) to the projects: YOUNG: Children’s living conditions in a changing society: SocioeYOUNGWORK: Early labour market outcomes of young adults
Simon Beard: Personal identity and population ethics
Personal identity and population ethics: beyond the Non-Identity problem. Simon Beard, PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Read more about Simon Beard
Lambros Roumbanis
My research focuses on the organization of expert judgments, evaluation technologies, selection mechanisms, and complex decision-making processes. More specifically, I study how organizations deal wit
Additively-separable and rank-discounted variable-population social welfare functions: A characterization
Economic Letters, vol. 203 Abstract Economic policy evaluations require social welfare functions for variable-size populations. Two important candidates are critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CL
Peter Edlund: Constructing an Arbiter of Status: A Study of the European Research Council's Emergence in the Field of Science
Peter Edlund, Researcher at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. Abstract In my presentation, I will develop a theoretical account that centers on how certain actors are constructed i
Researcher & assistant to SEMI, a research project on integration of youth in Sweden
The Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), Stockholm, is appointing one or two researchers (sociologist/social scientist), or one researcher and one assistant, to the project SEMI, for a one- or two-ye
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company
Big Data & Society Abstract In recent years, both private and public organizations across contexts have begun implementing AI technologies in their recruitment processes. This transition is typicall
The Tyranny of Political Correctness? A Game-Theoretic Model of Social Norms and Implicit Bias
Journal of Applied Philosophy Abstract This article sets out to describe and solve two puzzles that emerge in segregated labour markets (e.g. the USA or Sweden). First, in many hiring contexts people prqualification norm
