Labour Market

How clicks on a job platform can reveal bias

Scientists at ETH Zurich have leveraged big data from recruitment platforms and machine learning to study hiring discrimination. They show that discrimination against immigrants depends, among other things, on the time of day; and that both men and women face discrimination. The study was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and has been published in the renowned scientific journal external page Nature.

More information on the study and the results can be found here.

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