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  1. Unemployment, inactivity, and hiring chances: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Socio-Economic Review, May 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stijn Baert

  2. Not a lucky break? Why and when a career hiatus hijacks hiring chances

    Article • Labour Economics, March 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  3. Bye, Bye, Hotel Mama, Bye, Bye Good Grades? Living in a Student Room and Exam Results in Tertiary Education

    Article • De Economist, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  4. Does Month of Birth Affect Speed and Quality of Transition from School to Work?

    Article • De Economist, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert, Luca Fumarco

  5. Speeding up on the learning curve: the evaluation of telework following a surge in telework experience

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  6. How Do Employers View Applicants With and Without Children?

    Article • Journal of Marriage and Family, July 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  7. Hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups

    Article • June 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Stijn Baert

  8. De nasleep van burn-out: Stigmatisering als hardnekkige bedreiging bij arbeidsre-integratie

    Article • Gedrag & Organisatie, June 2025, Amsterdam University Press

    Dr Stijn Baert

  9. From Policy to Practice: Unraveling Individual Uptake of Compressed Work Schedules

    Article • Human Resource Management, April 2025, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  10. Sexual orientation stereotypes and job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK

    Article • Journal of Population Economics, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  11. Hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups

    Article • IZA World of Labor, January 2025, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

    Dr Stijn Baert

  12. Nothing really matters: evaluating demand-side moderators of age discrimination in hiring

    Article • Socio-Economic Review, November 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stijn Baert

  13. Mens Sana in Corpore Sano! The hiring premium for physical versus mental exercise in different occupations

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  14. Time Tetris: a longitudinal study on compressed schedules and workplace well-being at IKEA

    Article • November 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr Stijn Baert

  15. Labour Market Disadvantages of Citizens with a Migration Background in Belgium: A Systematic Review

    Article • De Economist, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  16. A poisoned gift? The hireability signals of an income-support program for the senior unemployed

    Article • Journal of Demographic Economics, September 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Stijn Baert

  17. I won’t make the same mistake again: burnout history and job preferences

    Article • Journal of Population Economics, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  18. Internships, Hiring Outcomes and Underlying Mechanisms: A Stated Preferences Experiment

    Article • De Economist, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  19. What does job applicants’ body art signal to employers?

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  20. Understanding ethnic hiring discrimination: A contextual analysis of experimental evidence

    Article • Labour Economics, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  21. The state of hiring discrimination: A meta-analysis of (almost) all recent correspondence experiments

    Article • European Economic Review, January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  22. Job Prestige and Mobile Dating Success: A Field Experiment

    Article • De Economist, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  23. Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches?

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  24. Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? A systematic review of the empirical evidence

    Article • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  25. Ethnic discrimination on paper: uncovering realtors’ willingness to discriminate with mystery mails

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  26. The COVID-19 crisis and telework: a research survey on experiences, expectations and hopes

    Article • The European Journal of Health Economics, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  27. Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination: Evidence from a choice experiment

    Article • Economics Letters, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  28. Successful return to work after burnout: an evaluation of job, person- and private-related burnout determinants as determinants of return-to-work quality after sick leave for burnout

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Stijn Schelfhout, Dr Stijn Baert

  29. What shifts did covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  30. The iceberg decomposition: A parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets

    Article • Economic Analysis and Policy, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  31. Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities*

    Article • Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, February 2021, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  32. Secondary School Success in Times of Parental Divorce

    Article • Family Relations, July 2020, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  33. Student Access to Apprenticeships: Evidence from a Vignette Experiment

    Article • Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  34. Twelve eyes see more than eight. Referee bias and the introduction of additional assistant referees in soccer

    Article • PLOS One, February 2020, PLOS

    Dr Stijn Baert

  35. Yawning while scrolling? Examining gender differences in the association between smartphone use and sleep quality

    Article • Journal of Sleep Research, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  36. Home advantage in European international soccer: which dimension of distance matters?

    Article • Economics, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Stijn Baert

  37. Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: Correlation or Causal Relationship?

    Article • Kyklos, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  38. Relative age effect on European adolescents’ social network

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert, Luca Fumarco

  39. Voting with your wallet? Municipal budget policy and election results

    Article • PLOS One, August 2019, PLOS

    Dr Stijn Baert

  40. No evidence for second leg home advantage in recent seasons of European soccer cups

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert, Maarten Vandemaele

  41. And at the end, the Germans always win, don’t they? An evaluation of country-specific scoring behaviour in the dying seconds of international club soccer games

    Article • PLOS One, April 2019, PLOS

    Dr Stijn Baert

  42. The Signal of Applying for a Job Under a Vacancy Referral Scheme*

    Article • Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  43. Too sick or not too sick? The importance of stress and satisfaction with supervisor support on the prevalence of sickness presenteeism

    Article • International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  44. DOES STUDENT WORK REALLY AFFECT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES? A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

    Article • Journal of Economic Surveys, November 2018, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  45. Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?

    Article • De Economist, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  46. Do Employers Prefer Overqualified Graduates? A Field Experiment

    Article • Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  47. No better moment to score a goal than just before half time? A soccer myth statistically tested

    Article • PLOS One, March 2018, PLOS

    Dr Stijn Baert

  48. Does it pay to care? Volunteering and employment opportunities

    Article • Journal of Population Economics, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  49. The effectiveness of medical and vocational interventions for reducing sick leave of self-employed workers

    Article • Health Economics, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  50. Student employment and academic performance: an empirical exploration of the primary orientation theory

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  51. Does work experience mitigate discrimination?

    Article • Economics Letters, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  52. Association between cultural distance and migrant self-rated health

    Article • The European Journal of Health Economics, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  53. Volunteering, income and health

    Article • PLOS One, March 2017, PLOS

    Dr Stijn Baert

  54. Facebook profile picture appearance affects recruiters’ first hiring decisions

    Article • New Media & Society, February 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Stijn Baert

  55. Getting grey hairs in the labour market. An alternative experiment on age discrimination

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  56. Immigrant volunteering: A way out of labour market discrimination?

    Article • Economics Letters, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  57. Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success: No Evidence for Higher Employment Chances

    Article • Kyklos, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert, Dieter Verhaest

  58. First depressed, then discriminated against?

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  59. Perceived discrimination In Primary Healthcare in Europe: evidence from the cross-sectional QUALICOPC study

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert, Amelie Van Pottelberge

  60. Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the 2nd Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity

    Article • De Economist, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  61. Do Employer Preferences Contribute to Sticky Floors?

    Article • ILR Review, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Stijn Baert

  62. Field Experimental Evidence on Gender Discrimination in Hiring: Biased as Heckman and Siegelman Predicted?

    Article • Economics, August 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Stijn Baert

  63. Mister Sandman, bring me good marks! On the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  64. Hiring Discrimination Against Pro-union Applicants: The Role of Union Density and Firm Size

    Article • De Economist, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  65. Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult?

    Article • ILR Review, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Stijn Baert

  66. Labour market discrimination against former juvenile delinquents: evidence from a field experiment

    Article • Applied Economics, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  67. Wage subsidies and hiring chances for the disabled: some causal evidence

    Article • The European Journal of Health Economics, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  68. Is ethnic discrimination due to distaste or statistics?

    Article • Economics Letters, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  69. Career lesbians. Getting hired for not having kids?

    Article • Industrial Relations Journal, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Stijn Baert

  70. Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments

    Article • De Economist, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stijn Baert

  71. Better sexy than flexy? A lab experiment assessing the impact of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stijn Baert

  72. Overeducation at the start of the career: Stepping stone or trap?

    Article • Labour Economics, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  73. Pure ethnic gaps in educational attainment and school to work transitions: When do they arise?

    Article • Economics of Education Review, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Stijn Baert

  74. The Impact of Military Work Experience on Later Hiring Chances in the Civilian Labour Market. Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Article • Economics, August 2013, De Gruyter

    Dr Stijn Baert