When small decisions have big impact: Fairness implications of algorithmic profiling schemes


Kern, Christoph ; Bach, Ruben L. ; Mautner, Hannah ; Kreuter, Frauke



Additional URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3442/paper-36.pdf
Document Type: Conference or workshop publication
Year of publication: 2023
Book title: EWAF 2023: European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness : proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, Winterthur, Switzerland, June 7th to 9th, 2023
The title of a journal, publication series: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume: 3442
Page range: 1-4
Conference title: EWAF 2023
Location of the conference venue: Winterthur, Switzerland
Date of the conference: 07.-09.06.2023
Publisher: Alvarez, Jose M. ; Fabris, Alessandro ; Heitz, Christoh ; Hertweck, Corinna ; Loi, Michele ; Zehlike, Meike
Place of publication: Aachen, Germany
Publishing house: RWTH Aachen
ISSN: 1613-0073
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Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department A
Pre-existing license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Subject: 310 Statistics
Abstract: Algorithmic profiling is increasingly used in the public sector with the hope to allocate limited public resources more effectively and objectively. One example is the prediction-based profiling of job seekers to guide the allocation of support measures by public employment services. However, empirical evaluations of unintended discrimination and fairness concerns are rare in this context. We systematically compare and evaluate statistical models for predicting job seekers’ risk of becoming long-term unemployed with respect to subgroup prediction performance, fairness metrics, and vulnerabilities to data analysis decisions using large-scale German administrative data. We show that despite achieving high prediction performance on average, profiling models can be considerably less accurate for vulnerable social subgroups and that different classification policies can have very different fairness implications.




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