Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …

age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …Supply-side Social Security reforms intended to increase employment and delay benefit claiming among older individuals … may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …

This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United …

Lifecycle theories of mergers and diversification predict that firms make acquisitions and diversify when their …

Does corporate diversification reduce shareholder value? Since firms endogenously choose to diversify, exogenous … variation in diversification is necessary in order to draw inferences about the causal effect. We examine changes in the within … investment, are negatively related to firm value. Thus diversification destroys value, consistent with the inefficient internal …

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments--which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …

Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign …

valuations. We find that there is a diversification discount: The marketvalues financial conglomerates that engage in multiple … indicate that economies of scope arenot sufficiently large to produce a diversification premium …