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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 …
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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...
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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier : Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes : A Field Experiment on Discrimination
Castillo, Marco - 2012
. These differentials are consistent with both statistical and taste-based discrimination. To identify the source of the … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …
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Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2017
We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Hometown ties to fellow selection committee members increase candidates' election probability by 39 percent, coming entirely from the...
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The Price of Political Opposition : Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2009
In 2004, the Chávez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters whom had attempted to remove him from office throughout the government bureaucracy, allegedly to identify and punish these voters. We match the list of petition signers distributed by the government to...
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