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Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks : a Study of South Carolina
Heckman, James J. - 2015
This paper assesses the contribution of federal antidiscrimination policy to the dramatic improvement of black economic status in manufacturing that occurred in South Carolina in the mid 1960's. Using a unique data source on wages and employment by race and sex in South Carolina we evaluate...
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The Interaction of Residential Segregation and Employment Discrimination
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2021
This paper seeks to disentangle the impactof residential segregation from that of employment discrimination in …
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Employment and Occupational Advance Under Affirmative Action
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2021
Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to help move them up the job ladder, and it is this second goal that is perhaps the more controversial. Studies of Affirmative Action during thel ate 1960's and early 1910's found it...
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The Effectiveness of Equal Employment Law and Affirmative Action Regulation
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234082
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Within Group "Structural" Tests of Labor-Market Discrimination : A Study of Persons with Serious Disabilities
Salkever, David S.; Domino, Marisa E. - 2021
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 …
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Beauty and the Labor Market
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - 2021
We develop a theory of sorting across occupations based on looks and derive its implications for testing for the source of earnings differentials related to looks. These differentials are examined using the 1977 Quality of Employment, the 1971 Quality of American Life, and the 1981 Canadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229123
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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending
Dobbie, Will - 2018
This paper tests for bias in consumer lending decisions using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our analysis using a simple model of bias in lending, which predicts that profits should be identical for loan applicants from different groups at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911705
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Saints Marching in, 1590-2009
Barro, Robert J. - 2011
The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and canonization. We analyze determinants of rates of beatification and canonization (for non-martyrs) over time and across six world regions. The research uses a recently assembled...
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Substitution and Stigma : Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2011
dollars in donations to non-Catholic faiths. Those substituting out of Catholicism frequently chose highly dissimilar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118421
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From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles : Fertility Decline Among European Catholics
Berman, Eli - 2012
Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite low female labor force participation. We model three channels of religious effects on demand for children: through changing norms, reduced market wages, and reduced costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101277