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redress of violations of rights. Antidiscrimination laws, especially Title VII, notably prohibit employment discrimination on … the early 21st century is very different from the workplace when the major employment discrimination statutes were enacted …. Prior emphasis on employment discrimination on the basis of race and sex has been superseded by enhanced attention to sexual …
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a model where the active gang members face contradictory incentives to commit a crime. On the one hand, public … collective liability, allowing the judge to sanction the sleeping partner even if he hasn’t realized any crime himself, can reach …
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model where the active gang members face contradictory incentives to commit a crime. On the one hand, public authorities try … collective liability, allowing the judge to sanction the sleeping partner even if he hasn't realized any crime himself, can reach …
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a model where the active gang members face contradictory incentives to commit a crime. On the one hand, public … collective liability, allowing the judge to sanction the sleeping partner even if he hasn’t realized any crime himself, can reach …
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We study the effects of pay history inquiry bans on employers' pay offers and hiring practices. Using salary information on online job postings, we find that posted pay offers decline after the implementation of pay history inquiry bans. We also find some evidence that the number of online job...
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History is replete with overt discrimination of various forms. However, these forms of discrimination are not equally … tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics such as race or gender is … much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple model of conflict which is driven by either racial (gender) discrimination or …
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The impact of Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp., was assessed by examining the effect of the decision on shareholder returns in two samples of firms. Shareholder returns of securities firms rose between 5% and 6% in response to the decision, indicating that firms in the securities industry...
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The Americans with Disabilities Act provides a clear mandate that disabled workers be provided with "reasonable" accommodations, but does not meaningfully articulate the standards by which reasonableness ought to be measured. Until now, neither courts nor commentators have provided a systematic...
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Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
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