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In light of the recent bans on affirmative action in higher education, this paper provides new evidence on the effects of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas...
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drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … perceptions. Adoption of pro-testing legislation increases black employment in the testing sector by 7–30 percent and relative …
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women who serve in such disproportionate numbers. This paper investigates the civilian employment experiences of female … evaluate the employment experiences of female veterans. Second, data from an audit study of civilian hiring practices provides … force attachment. Only white women show slightly lower rates of employment (among those in the labor force), while black …
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This book explores the effects of discrimination on the economic outcomes of various societal groups.
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What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper … analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore ….S. employment landscape. The study uses a new panel data set of over 100,000 large private-sector firms across all industries and …
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Despite tremendous recent interest in the subject of student debt by both researchers and policymakers, little is known about how the distribution of college graduate debt has been evolving and what factors can explain it. We use National Postsecondary Student Aid Study data from 1990 through...
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Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.
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