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Age Discrimination Laws and Labor Market Efficiency

Neumark, David - 1997

age. This model implies that age discrimination laws, which bar involuntary terminations based on age, discourage the use … retirement, age discrimination laws may instead strengthen the bonds between workers and firms and encourage efficient Lazear … contracts. We assess evidence on these alternative interpretations of age discrimination laws by estimating the effects of such …

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Within Group "Structural" Tests of Labor-Market Discrimination : A Study of Persons with Serious Disabilities

Salkever, David S. - 1997

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, Productivity and Discrimination : Lawyers' Looks and Lucre

Biddle, Jeff E. - 1995

We propose several models in which an ascriptive characteristic generates earnings differentials and is sorted across sectors. The general approach shows how to distinguish the ultimate sources of labor-market returns to such characteristics; the specific example uses longitudinal data on a...

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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. - 1989

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 Effectiveness of Equal Employment Law and Affirmative Action Regulation

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1985

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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Unions and Equal Employment Opportunity

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984

discrimination than do nonunion plants against black or Hispanic men, or against black or white women, despite ther ecessions of the …

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The Interaction of Residential Segregation and Employment Discrimination

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984

This paper seeks to disentangle the impactof residential segregation from that of employment discrimination in …

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Public Policy and Employment Discrimination in the U.S

Freeman, Richard B. - 1982

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...

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Beauty and the Labor Market

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1993

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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Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality : Evidence from GP Choice in England

Brown, Zach Y.; Hansman, Christopher; Keener, Jordan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Why do low income patients tend to go to lower quality health care providers, even when they are free? We show that differential information about provider quality is an important determinant of this disparity. Our empirical strategy exploits the temporary presence of a website that publicly...

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