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Discrimination and the effects of drug testing on black employment
Wozniak, Abigail K. - 2012
drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … the absence of testing. -- employer drug testing ; discrimination ; black employment ; labor market outcome disparities … testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548122
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Discrimination and the effects of drug testing on black employment
Wozniak, Abigail K. - 2013
drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … white women for blacks in the absence of testing. -- Employment drug testing ; discrimination ; employment ; Current … testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737592
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Awareness reduces racial bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010245997
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Age and the labor market for Hispanics in the United States
Lahey, Joanna; Mosquera, Roberto M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We explore the labor market for Hispanic high school graduates in the United States by age using information from the US Census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and three laboratory experiments. We find, in general, that the differences in outcomes for Hispanic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334390
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Are there returns to experience at low-skill jobs? : evidence from single mothers in the United States over the 1990s
Looney, Adam; Manoli, Dayanand S. - 2016
Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers … experience, single mothers' real wages and employment have remained relatively unchanged. The empirical analysis suggests that an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471504
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Labor impacts of COVID-19 in U.S. agriculture : evidence from the current population survey
Pena, Anita Alves - In: Journal of labor research 44 (2023) 1/2, pp. 44-55
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Diagnosing discrimination : stock returns and CEO gender
Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
providing insight into the presence of mistake-based discrimination. Specifically if female-headed firms were systematically … that financial markets either do or do not under-estimate female CEOs. -- discrimination ; CEOs ; chief executive officer … ; event study ; statistical discrimination ; excess returns ; female CEOs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274244
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Fragmented Oversight of Nonprofits in the United States : Does It Work? Can It Work?
Mayer, Lloyd Hitoshi - 2016
The United States is well known for its distinctive although not unique division of political authority between the federal government and the various states. This division is particularly evident when it comes to oversight of nonprofit organizations. The historical focus of federal government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997198
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Lack of Integrity? Rebutting the Myth that U.S. Commercial Sports Leagues Have an Intellectual Property Right to Sports Gambling Proceeds
Edelman, Marc - 2018
On May 14, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”) violated the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and thus the U.S. government may not use PASPA to prevent states from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915927
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Bilateral Investment Treaty and Free Trade Agreement : The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the United States
Nawafleh, Abdullah - 2011
, employment rights and environmental protection. Reviews the impact which the two pieces of legislation have had on Jordan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184646