Learning and Work hybrid seminars, Autumn 2025

The Maastricht University - SBE hybrid seminar series features researchers from different disciplines, with focuses on both academic and policy issues.

The hybrid seminar series takes place every Tuesday from 12:00 to 13:00, on site and also via Microsoft Teams.

Organisers of L&W seminars

Raymond Montizaan: r.montizaan@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Katarina Wessling: k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Steffen Künn: s.kuenn@maastrichtuniversity.nl

  • Upcoming seminar

    When: Tuesday, November 25
    Time: 12.00 - 13.00
    Where: TS53 - C-1.05

    Speaker: Paula Protsch - BIBB / Univ. Cologne

    Title: Mitigating Ethnic Discrimination in Apprenticeship Hiring? The role of employer and teacher references in Norway

    Abstract: Many (field) experiments documented the prevalence of ethnic discrimination in employers’ hiring decisions across many European labor markets. Much less attention has been given to factors that could potentially mitigate such discriminatory preferences by countering stereotypes about hirability, trainability, or social fit. We present first evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian apprenticeship system and test whether and how employers’ ethnic bias against second-generation immigrant youth might be mitigated by additional applicant information provided by good references from internships and from vocational teachers. We invited all employers in the broader Oslo region to participate in a factorial survey experiment in early 2025. With a response rate of 17%, we reached a sample of 620 employers who, in total, evaluated 3,720 vignettes, describing fictitious applicants. The online survey was supplemented with variables from registry data on the employers and their organizations. Based on linear regressions with cluster-robust standard errors, we find that employers prefer to hire applicants with a Norwegian name rather than those with a Pakistani or Polish name, and that applicants with positive references from employers and teachers get higher ratings too. Good references, however, do not mitigate ethnic bias in employer ratings. 

     

    Scheduled seminars


    09.12.2025 Mantej Pardesi - ROA / Maastricht University

     

    Previous seminars


    September 2, 2025 Jan Möhlmann (CPB) - From Immediate Disruptions to Lasting Impacts: COVID-19 Infections and Their Effects on Labor Supply and Disability Insurance
    September 16, 2025 Steffen Hillmert / Silvia Kopeczny (University of Tübingen) - Digital literacy and social inequality in education from an international perspective: a matter of equalisation or exacerbation?
    September 30, 2025 Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - Quasi-Random Matches: Evidence from Dual Labor Markets
    October 14, 2025 Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Hollaway) - Labor supply, temperature, and green space in urban Mexico
    October 20, 2025 Mark Boyes / Elizabeth Hill (Curtin University) Extraordinary seminar - Supporting mental health in the context of language and literacy difficulties
    October 21, 2025 CANCELLED - Wieteke Conen (UvA) Understanding the quality and consequences of working multiple jobs
    November 11, 2025 Jan-Paul Heisig (WZB / FU Berlin) - Regional unemployment at entry and early-career outcomes of young adults in Europe: How scarring effects depend on gender, education, and labor market institutions 


     
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