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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
Cohen, Alma - 2018
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105730
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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A. - 2008
and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773154
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Prejudice and the Economics of Discrimination
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2008
's (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics … discrimination literature. Using rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey, we find strong support for all of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773183
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Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Button, Patrick - 2019
. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of “bridge” jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870062
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991675
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Public Policy and Employment Discrimination in the U.S
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
This paper examines evidence on employment practices in the U.S. with respect to race and the impact of governmental anti-bias activity on these practices. It shows a striking difference in the responses of American employers to job applications differing in race from the responses of British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219323
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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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Are Affirmative Action Hires Less Qualified? Evidence from Employer-Employee Data on New Hires
Holzer, Harry J.; Neumark, David - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231569
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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