This paper assesses the impact of international trade and investment flows on the evolution of working conditions and labor rights in Asian and non-Asian countries in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Labor conditions improved as globalization increased during this period. We find that...

Explores the prevalence of employment discrimination against minorities in the United States. Analysis of income received by African-Americans; Measurement of market discrimination; Efficiency of government antidiscriminatory programs; Overview of studies on government employment programs....

This paper examines theoretically and empirically the feedback from racial wage differences to unemployment differentials among experienced workers. Although the received theory predicts that the removal of racial wage differentials will increase the relative unemployment of blacks, this...

Changes in economic systems provide a rare opportunity to redesign basic institutional structures in labor markets. This paper attempts to provide guidance for such institutional choice by drawing on the findings of recent labor market research in market economies on the links between...

From the perspective of market economies, central planning produced distinct distortions in the wage structures of socialist countries. This paper examines the extent to which wage structures have adjusted to remove such distortions during the economic transition using micro-data from the Czech...

This paper develops empirical tests of the utility analysis approach to wage discrimination within a given occupation. In one section, the general equilibrium prediction of negatively sloped relative racial demand curves is tested using cross-section regressions. In another section, actual...