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 …

discrimination than do nonunion plants against black or Hispanic men, or against black or white women, despite ther ecessions of the …

always reach the same dead-end: residual differences across race or gender are due either to discrimination or to unobserved … litigation has had some success in fighting racial discrimination. Direct tests of the impact of Title VII litigation and …

We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms … both empirical analysis designed to detect discrimination and policy meant to alleviate it. Affirmative action is much less … effective than in traditional statistical discrimination models. More generally, we demonstrate the futility of one …

mobility which has strong parallels with the theory of progressive taxation. We characterize opportunity--equalizing mobility …

differences. We argue that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap, in …

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …

Discrimination has been widely studied in the social sciences. Economists often categorize the source of discrimination … inaccurate statistical discrimination generates an identification problem for attempts to isolate the source of differential … of discrimination—to formally outline the identification problem: when not accounted for, inaccurate statistical …