You Are Not Worth the Risk: Lawful Discrimination in Hiring
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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.Verknüpfung zu Publikationen oder weiteren Datensätzen
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Rationality, markets, and morals: RMM 5 (2014), 13 - 29