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The impact of affirmative action in India and the United States : a systematic literature review
Schotte, Simone; Leone, Tharcisio; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2023
This paper provides a systematic review of quantitative literature investigating the success of affirmative action (AA) policies in addressing socio-economic inequalities between ethnic groups in education and employment. We focus on two of the most influential national experiences: caste-based...
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Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on social security disability insurance? : evidence from the U.S. social security reforms
Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur R. - 2020
discrimination laws moderated these spillovers, using variation whereby many state laws are broader or stronger than federal law. We … stronger features of state disability discrimination laws reduce both SSDI applications and receipt. We do not find much … evidence that age discrimination laws reduce spillovers to SSDI. These results suggest that broader and stronger disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214821
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The economic status of Asian Americans before and after the Civil Rights Act
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Sanders, Seth - 2012
effects on the 1960 wage gap and its subsequent reduction. Our findings suggest that anti-Asian labor market discrimination ….S.-born Asian men stemmed from a decline in anti-Asian discrimination. Although much of the policy focus of the civil rights era was … directed at reducing discrimination against blacks, our findings suggest a prominent post-Civil Rights Act labor market effect …
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The civil rights act and the earnings of lower income Hispanic men in the 1960's
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2012
significant acceleration following the Civil Rights Act in the relative earnings of low-income Hispanic men. -- anti-discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548645
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Population aging, age discrimination, and age discrimination protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Button, Patrick - 2019
. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of "bridge" jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …
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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-17
Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...
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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282267
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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282604
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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287854
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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier : is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
. -- beauty ; height ; discrimination ; market responses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545351