Rüya Gökhan Koçer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rüya Gökhan Koçer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rüya Gökhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Koçer |
| SIGNATURE | KOÇER R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8058-1113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
MinMax fairness
This paper presents an intuitive explanation about why and how Rawlsian Theory of Justice (Rawls in A theory of justice, Harvard University Press, Harvard, 1971) provides the foundations to a solution for algorithmic bias. The contribution of the paper is to discuss and show why Rawlsian ideas in their original form (e.g. the veil of ignorance , original position , and allowing inequalities that serve the worst-off) are relevant to operationalize…
Ethical implications of fairness interventions
The importance of fairness in machine learning models is widely acknowledged, and ongoing academic debate revolves around how to determine the appropriate fairness definition, and how to tackle the trade-off between fairness and model performance. In this paper we argue that besides these concerns, there can be ethical implications behind seemingly purely technical choices in fairness interventions in a typical model development pipeline. As an e…
Measuring the strength of trade unions and identifying the privileged groups
Trade unions were important actors in the advanced capitalist countries until the late 1970s, but since the 1980s, union membership is declining. Whether this decline has been homogenous is crucial. Because unions may still have power and non-homogenous decline implies that some groups benefit from this power disproportionately. However, we don’t have instruments to scrutinize this dynamic properly. To fill the gap, this study develops a model th…
Determinants of Indefinite Contracts in Europe
Using individual-level data from the 2010 wave of the European Working Conditions Survey ( ewcs ), and country-level data on unemployment, employment protection legislation and union density for 21 European countries, this paper provides a comprehensive multi-level analysis of the determinants of indefinite employment contracts. The authors find that workers’ autonomy on the job, the intensity of computer use, and the presence of general and spec…
Does education affect opinions on economic inequality? A joint mean and dispersion analysis
Research on public opinion on economic inequality mainly focuses on the legitimation of inequalities and possible discrepancies between public opinion on fair economic inequality and factual income distributions. However, what has been neglected is the extent to which individual or country characteristics affect deviations from average public opinion. To account for these deviations, we establish a joint multi-level mean-dispersion model and scru…
Does education affect opinions on economic inequality? A joint mean and dispersion analysis
Research on public opinion on economic inequality mainly focuses on the legitimation of inequalities and possible discrepancies between public opinion on fair economic inequality and factual income distributions. However, what has been neglected is the extent to which individual or country characteristics affect deviations from average public opinion. To account for these deviations, we establish a joint multi-level mean-dispersion model and scru…
Determinants of Indefinite Contracts in Europe
Using individual-level data from the 2010 wave of the European Working Conditions Survey ( ewcs ), and country-level data on unemployment, employment protection legislation and union density for 21 European countries, this paper provides a comprehensive multi-level analysis of the determinants of indefinite employment contracts. The authors find that workers’ autonomy on the job, the intensity of computer use, and the presence of general and spec…
Measuring the strength of trade unions and identifying the privileged groups
Trade unions were important actors in the advanced capitalist countries until the late 1970s, but since the 1980s, union membership is declining. Whether this decline has been homogenous is crucial. Because unions may still have power and non-homogenous decline implies that some groups benefit from this power disproportionately. However, we don’t have instruments to scrutinize this dynamic properly. To fill the gap, this study develops a model th…
Does education affect opinions on economic inequality? A joint mean and dispersion analysis
Research on public opinion on economic inequality mainly focuses on the legitimation of inequalities and possible discrepancies between public opinion on fair economic inequality and factual income distributions. However, what has been neglected is the extent to which individual or country characteristics affect deviations from average public opinion. To account for these deviations, we establish a joint multi-level mean-dispersion model and scru…
Determinants of Indefinite Contracts in Europe
Using individual-level data from the 2010 wave of the European Working Conditions Survey ( ewcs ), and country-level data on unemployment, employment protection legislation and union density for 21 European countries, this paper provides a comprehensive multi-level analysis of the determinants of indefinite employment contracts. The authors find that workers’ autonomy on the job, the intensity of computer use, and the presence of general and spec…
Measuring the strength of trade unions and identifying the privileged groups
Trade unions were important actors in the advanced capitalist countries until the late 1970s, but since the 1980s, union membership is declining. Whether this decline has been homogenous is crucial. Because unions may still have power and non-homogenous decline implies that some groups benefit from this power disproportionately. However, we don’t have instruments to scrutinize this dynamic properly. To fill the gap, this study develops a model th…
Ethical implications of fairness interventions
The importance of fairness in machine learning models is widely acknowledged, and ongoing academic debate revolves around how to determine the appropriate fairness definition, and how to tackle the trade-off between fairness and model performance. In this paper we argue that besides these concerns, there can be ethical implications behind seemingly purely technical choices in fairness interventions in a typical model development pipeline. As an e…
MinMax fairness
This paper presents an intuitive explanation about why and how Rawlsian Theory of Justice (Rawls in A theory of justice, Harvard University Press, Harvard, 1971) provides the foundations to a solution for algorithmic bias. The contribution of the paper is to discuss and show why Rawlsian ideas in their original form (e.g. the veil of ignorance , original position , and allowing inequalities that serve the worst-off) are relevant to operationalize…
Economics (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (2 works) · Inequality (2 works) · Management science (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)