Digital Inequalities  

How do job search platforms reproduce digital inequities and access to employment?

Most job seekers use the Internet for work and employment purposes and build upon digital skills. However, these skills are unequally distributed and concentrated among people with higher educational and economic capital.  With Stefano de Marco (USAL) and Ellen Heslper (LSE), whowed how this leads to digital and, subsequently, economic exclusion in the domain of work and employment. You can read a pre-print made available by the London School of Economics here.

This project was funded by an I+D grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformations (MINECO). It belongs to the global DiSTO initiatives, which develop and improve measures of people’s digital skills and the outcomes of ICTs.  Read the short presentation here. 

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, and Recruiting News Network.