TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Baert, Stijn
AU  - Visschere, Sarah De
AU  - Schoors, Koen
AU  - Omey, Eddy
        TI  - First Depressed, Then Discriminated Against?
        PY  - 2014/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8320
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8320
        AB  - This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from fictitious unemployed candidates to real vacancies in Belgium. Within each pair, one candidate cites depression as the reason for her/his unemployment, whereas the other candidate reveals no reason for unemployment. Overall, the hypothesis that applicants disclosing former depression are treated unfavourably is rejected. However, if we break up the data by the gender of the recruiter, we see that revealing former depression as a reason for unemployment is rewarded by female recruiters, whereas it affects the hiring decisions made by male recruiters in a non-positive way.
        KW  - economics of health
KW  - hiring discrimination
KW  - field experiments
KW  - depression
        ER  -