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. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of "bridge" jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …
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This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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This article reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the … consequences of such discrimination, and possible approaches to undermine it. We highlight key gaps in the literature and ripe … prevalence of discrimination, most notably audit and correspondence studies; it also describes several other measurement tools …
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may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …-side efforts to deter age discrimination, specifically studying whether stronger state-level age discrimination protections … age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …
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A growing body of new research has emphasized the macroeconomic consequences of transactional impediments in factor markets, and their role in the recurrent restructuring requirements of modern economies. We first review the function institutional arrangements play in facilitating transactions...
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Obstfeld and Taylor (2004). We find evidence that capital market integration within the EU is less than what is implied by …
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How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Orthodox criticisms of European government institutions are right in some cases and wrong in others. Protectionist labor-market...
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features of the institution and decision making process in the European Union, with particular attention to the debate between … EU institutions, and lack of transparency and accountability. This dirigiste culture produces verbose rhetoric, which …
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measure discrimination by comparing how responsive individuals ("audited units") are to correspondences from different types …. We argue that when researchers use audit correspondence studies to measure discrimination against individuals that … attenuated (downwardly biased) estimates of discrimination …
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Economics tends to define and measure discrimination as disparities stemming from the direct (causal) effects of … systemic (i.e. indirect) channels. For example, racial disparities in criminal records due to discrimination in policing can … for modeling and measuring both direct and systemic forms of discrimination. We define systemic discrimination as emerging …
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