16 Déc 2025
📍 IDHEAP Learning Lab
IDHEAP, in collaboration with LIVES, the Swiss center of expertise in lifecourse research, is pleased to invite you to a talk given by Christian Albrekt Larsen on employer discrimination against older workers.
📢 Programme:
16.15 : Introduction, by Giuliano Bonoli, IDHEAP, UNIL
16.20 : Talk, by Christian Albrekt Larsen, University of Aarlborg
16.50 : Discussion, introduced by Daniel Oesch, ISS-LIVES, UNIL
17.15 : Apéritif
Abstract: Age discrimination persists as a pervasive and enduring form of discrimination bias within the labour market of industrial democracies. Previous studies have consistently found that older applicants face diminished employment opportunities compared to their younger counterparts. Moreover, research has shown that old age discrimination in hiring supersedes other discrimination forms such as those based on gender and ethnicity in all types of industries and sectors. In this presentation, Professor Christian Albrekt Larsen presents results from an ongoing research project based on unique data from a conjoint survey experiment combined with survey and administrative register data, covering a nationwide representative sample of Danish employers. As a follow-up to the 2023-article Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects - ScienceDirect , the talk focuses on the question of why, and the broader implications for prolonging working lives.
Christian Albrekt Larsen is Professor at the Department of Politics and Society, University of Aarlborg. He has specialised in the question of how to build social coherent societies in open economies and multicultural settings. His academic work demonstrates that the institutional structure behind the “Nordic model” still provides a promising answer to this fundamental question of social science. Amiong is key publications are : “The rise and fall of social cohesion. Constructing and de-constructing social trust in the US, UK, Sweden and Denmark” (Oxford University Press, 2013), and "Migrants' Attitudes and the Welfare State: The Danish Melting Pot" in 2021 (Edward Elgar, co-authored).