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Are Affirmative Action Hires Less Qualified? Evidence from Employer-Employee Data on New Hires

Holzer, Harry - 1996

In this paper we use micro-level data on employers and employees to investigate whether Affirmative Action procedures lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our measures of qualifications include the educational...

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Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? A Re-examination of the Evidence

Neumark, David - 2016

There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …

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