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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: The enshittification of labor (07 Nov 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/07/postwar-social-contract/
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Too old to be a diversity hire: choice bundling shown to increase gender-diverse hiring decisions fails to increase age diversity
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/120910/3/Jolles_too_old_to_be_a_diversity_hire_published.pdf
"…found evidence of bias against older job candidates in hiring decisions but found inconsistent effects of choice bundling on the selection of older candidates across experiments."
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Nothing Really Matters: Evaluating Demand-Side Moderators of Age #Discrimination in Hiring http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp16672&r=exp
"… senior candidates experience discrimination during the hiring process. On average, they receive 16.97% fewer positive responses than comparable younger candidates
… none of the investigated demand-side characteristics moderated the #ageDiscrimination observed in the field experiment"
#LaborMarkets #LaborEconomics #ExperimentalEcon