You are not worth the risk: Lawful discrimination in hiring.

dc.contributor.author	Scholes, V.
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-31T20:27:17Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-31T20:27:17Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	Increasing empirical research on productivity supports the use of statistical or ‘rational’ discrimination in hiring. The practice is legal for features of job applicants not covered by human rights discrimination laws, such as being a smoker, residing in a particular neighbourhood or being a particular height. The practice appears largely morally innocuous under existing philosophical accounts of wrongful discrimination. This paper argues that lawful statistical discrimination treats job applicants in a way that may be considered degrading, and is likely to constrain people’s freedoms in relation to employment, thus giving us reason for moral concern.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Scholes, V. (2014). You are not worth the risk: Lawful discrimination in hiring. RMM, 5, 13-29. Retrieved from http://www.rmm-journal.de/downloads/Article_Scholes.pdf.	en
dc.identifier.issn	1869-778X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11072/1627
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Discrimination	en
dc.subject	Ethics	en
dc.subject	Employment	en
dc.subject	Hiring	en
dc.subject	Statistical discrimination	en
dc.title	You are not worth the risk: Lawful discrimination in hiring.	en
dc.type	Article	en

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