Digital Inequalities
How do job search platforms reproduce digital inequities and access to employment?
With Stefano de Marco (USAL) and Ellen Heslper (LSE), we challenge optimistic narratives about digitalization by effectively capturing how it widens social and economic gaps in the labor markets rather than contributing to more inclusive and resilient societies.
We have been conducting several research projects funded by I+D grants from the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformations (MINECO). It belongs to the global DiSTO initiative (London School of Economics), which measures people’s digital skills and the outcomes of ICTs. Read the short presentation here.
D-Inequalities (2020-24) showed that digital skills are concentrated among job seekers with higher educational and economic capital, reinforcing patterns of labor-market exclusion. It belongs to the global DiSTO initiatives (London School of Economics), which develop and improve measures of people’s digital skills and the outcomes of ICTs. Read the short presentation here. You can read a preprint available from the LSE here.
A-Literacy (2025-ongoing) specifically examines the understanding job seekers develop of algorithmic technologies and their use of Generative AI during the online job search process.
We also analyzed the impact of digital inequalities on education for the Foundation Reina Sofia. Read the full report here.
Our findings have been profiled in the popular press, including The Irish Times, Recruiter UK, FinTechBloom,