) were already covered by state-level 'fair employment' laws which prohibited labor market discrimination. This paper … assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black workers' income, unemployment, labor force participation, and …, the fair employment laws adopted in the 1940s appear to have had larger effects than those adopted in the 1950s, and the …

) were already covered by state-level 'fair employment' laws which prohibited labor market discrimination. This paper … assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black workers' income, unemployment, labor force participation, and …, the fair employment laws adopted in the 1940s appear to have had larger effects than those adopted in the 1950s, and the …

in states with "fair employment" laws prohibiting labor market discrimination. Using census data from the Integrated … Public Use Microdata Series, the author assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black workers' relative income …, unemployment, labor force participation, migration, and occupational and industrial distributions. In general, the fair employment …

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We answer this … question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 countries. Using … the local projection method, we find that, during recessions, a positive fiscal spending shock increases female employment …