experiment
Myths and truths about "the experiment"
The Swedish response to Covid-19 put in context.
The new wave of basic income experiments
Welcome to a seminar on the new book "Basinkomstens nya våg" (The New Wave of Universal Basic Income). In the book leading researchers on universal basic income (UBI) analyze recent UBI-related experi
Bookseminar - The new wave of basic income experiments (webinar)
Place: Register for this online seminar. Shortly before the seminar you will receive a link to the webinar and instructions on how to ask questions to the authors. This seminar will be held in English We
How Sensitive is Old-Age Poverty to Financial Crisis? A microsimulation Experiment for Sweden
How Sensitive is Old-Age Poverty to Financial Crisis? A microsimulation Experiment for Sweden in: New Pathways in Microsimulation, Eds.: Gijs Dekkers, Marcia Keegan & Cathal O’Donoghue. Pp: 161-18
Completed: Inclusion and Exclusion at the Labor Market – an Intersectional Field Experiment
This project will investigate the role of employer hiring discrimination in the reproduction of ethnic and gender segregation, and inequality in the labor market.
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
Do Employers Prefer Fathers? Evidence from a Field Experiment Testing the Gender by Parenthood Interaction Effect on Callbacks to Job Applications
European Sociological Review, 2017, Vol. 33, No. 3, 337–348 In research on fatherhood premiums and motherhood penalties in career-related outcomes, employers’ discriminatory behaviours are often argued
The Multiple Burdens of Foreign-Named Men—Evidence from a Field Experiment on Gendered Ethnic Hiring Discrimination in Sweden
European Sociological ReviewFull text Abstract Scholars have documented ethnic and gender discrimination across labour markets since the 1970s by using field experiments (correspondence tests) in which
Evidence from a long-term experiment that collective risks change social norms and promote cooperation
Nature Communications 12, 5452 AbstractSocial norms can help solve pressing societal challenges, from mitigating climate change to reducing the spread of infectious diseases. Despite their relevance, h
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund: Gender discrimination in hiring. Evidence from a cross-national harmonized field experiment
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, PhD in Sociology is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo (since 1999). Her main publications cover labour markeGender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labor market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different research designs, the estimates of discrimination cannot be compared across countries. By conducting the first harmonized comparative field experiment on gender discrimination in hiring in six countries, we can directly compare employers’ callbacks to fictitious male and female applicants. The countries included vary in a number of key institutional, economic and cultural dimensions, yet we found no sign of discrimination against women. This cross-national finding constitutes an important and robust piece of evidence. Second, we found discrimination against men in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, and no discrimination against men in Norway and the US. However, when we pooled the data, we found no significant differences across countries. Our findings suggest that although employers operate in quite different institutional contexts, they regard female applicants as more suitable for jobs in female-dominated occupations, ceteris paribus, while we find no evidence that they regard male applicants as more suitable anywhere.
