This paper seeks to disentangle the impactof residential segregation from that of employment discrimination in …

This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on … seems more compatible with an earnings redistribution rather than an anti-discrimination program. 4)While many of the …

Labor-market discrimination measures are usually derived from between-group comparisons of market outcomes for favored … heterogeneous, one can relate variations in discrimination intensity to market outcomes within the disfavored group. We use this … approach to test for employment and wage discrimination against persons with various types of disabilities. Measures of social …

We examine local labor markets in the U.S. and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data …. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada. Neither country saw wage … similarly, although in Canada they attract immigrant and highly-skilled workers more, while raising housing costs less. Chinese …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

growth. Although U.S. shocks are the dominant influence on aggregate employment growth in Canada, sectoral shocks account for …