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reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant …
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This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on employment and productivity.The major findings are that:1)Affirmative action has some success in improving employment opportunities for minorities and females, particularly for...
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assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black workers' income, unemployment, labor force participation, and …
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of such contracts and reduce efficiency. Alternatively, by making it costly for firms to dismiss older workers paid in … workers that firms must make under Lazear contracts. Given that employers remain able to use financial incentives to induce … retirement, age discrimination laws may instead strengthen the bonds between workers and firms and encourage efficient Lazear …
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This paper traces the diffusion of fair employment legislation at the state level and evaluates the relative importance of various demographic, political, and economic factors in the promotion (or at least the acceptance) of the principle of government-enforced anti-discrimination policy. The...
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knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …
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assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …
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graduating class from an elite engineering institution (EEI) in India we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in …
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) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …
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Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
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