09:00-09:30 |  Welcome and registration

09:30-10:00  | Institutional greetings 

Gustavo Barresi, Director, Department of Economics, University of Messina

Marcello Chiodi, President, Italian Statistical Society (SIS)

Venera Tomaselli, Vice President, Italian Society of Economics, Demography and Statistics (SIEDS)

Manuella Stranges, Board Member, Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP) and Coordinator of the University of Calabria local research unit – PRIN 2022 PNRR EAGLES 

Maria Gabriella Campolo (Chair), Principal Investigator, PRIN 2022 PNRR EAGLES, University of Messina

10:00–11:30 | Session 1 “Gendered discrimination in labour markets: from hiring processes to wage outcomes” 

Chair: Antonia Cava

 Eva Zschirnt – University of Amsterdam

Is there (gendered) discrimination against parents in the hiring process? A meta-analysis of correspondence studies (with I.M. Habicht, J. Daikeler)

Alessandra Trimarchi – University of Messina

Gender differences in wage assignment: The role of recruiters in a vignette experiment (with G. Busetta, M.G. Campolo)

Debora Maria Pizzimenti – University of Messina

Workplace discrimination and non-reproductive choices: A study on the r/childfree community (with M.G. Campolo, A. Cava)

Elena Iakimova –  University of Calabria 

The gender wage gap in Italy: Evidence from ISFOL PLUS 2016–2021 (with M. Stranges)

11:30-12:00  | COFFEE BREAK

12:00–13:30 | Session 2 “Advancing the study of labour market discrimination: Experimental, qualitative, and algorithmic perspectives” 

Chair: Massimo Mucciardi

Knut Petzold – Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences 

How do German employers rate international university graduates? Results of a factorial survey experiment

Louise Devos – Ghent University 

Ethnocultural identity and hiring decisions: The role of social desirability and employer bias

Giovanna Vingelli –  University of Calabria 

Working More, Being Less: Structural Discrimination, Racialised Labour and Institutional Invisibility in Migrants’ Narratives

Orietta Nicolis – University of Messina

AI and discrimination in the labour market (with G. Busetta, M.G. Campolo)

13:30–14:30 | Light lunch

14:30–16:00 | Session 3 “Discrimination in Access to Employment: Evidence, Dynamics, and Policy Responses in Europe” 

Chair: Marcantonio Caltabiano

Elena Iakimova – University of Calabria 

The perceived discrimination of migrants in access to employment in Europe” (with F. Condino, M. Stranges)

Giovanni Busetta  – University of Messina

From evidence to action: A systematic review of policies tackling labour market discrimination (2020–2025)” (with M.G. Campolo, A. De Pascale, D.M. Pizzimenti)

Louis Lippens – Ghent University 

The cyclicality of hiring discrimination

Jeremy Kuhnle – University of Lausanne 

Same scar, different outcomes? The effect of unemployment on hiring discrimination: Evidence from a cross-national correspondence study in Europe (with V. Di Stasio, V. Lachkovska, S. Steinmetz)  

16:00–16:30 | Coffee break

16:30–18:00 | Roundtable* 

Addressing discrimination: Welfare, labour, and integration in changing societies

Moderator: Rachele Gerace, Journalist

Panellists:

Gustavo De Santis (University of Florence), Andrea Nucita (University of Messina), Stefania Radici (Cgil)

*The roundtable will be held in Italian

21:00 | Social Dinner (closed session – PRIN units and invited guests only)