lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our … weaker job performance among most groups of minority and female Affirmative Action hires …

discrimination, but it may also induce a reaction from individuals who were not acting in a biased way …

was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …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 …

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 …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …

whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …