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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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(Un)Equal Protection : Why Gender Equality Depends on Discrimination

Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016

discrimination. But while the Court famously invalidated several sex-based laws at the end of the twentieth century, it also issued … long-ignored cases that approved of sex discrimination, this Article explains how the Court's rulings in this area have … equal protection that authorizes certain forms of sex discrimination, (Un)Equal Protection advocates for one particular …

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Affirmative Action Retrenchment in Public Procurement and Contracting

Davila, Rodrigo; Ha, Inhyuck; Myers, Samuel - 2013

This article provides estimates of the impacts of a race-neutral programme called an Emerging Small Business Enterprise (ESBE) Programme in New Jersey in 2003-2004 on women- and minority-owned contractors. We show that although women- and minority-owned firms conceptually benefit from ESBE...

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A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209

Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Proposition 209, enacted in California in 1996 and made effective the following year, ended state affirmative action programs not only in education, but also for public employment and government contracting. This paper uses CPS data and triple difference techniques to take advantage of the...

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Does Banning Affirmative Action Affect Racial SAT Score Gaps? An Empirical Analysis

Furstenberg, Eric - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2005

This paper conducts an empirical analysis of SAT scores to determine if banning affirmative action has any significant impact on the SAT scores of college bound minority high school students. A rational high school student should alter the amount of time spent studying during high school if any...

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The Informational Value of Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Furstenberg, Eric - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1, pp. 1709-1709

This article develops a theoretical model of college admissions to investigate the effects of banning affirmative action admissions policies on the efficiency of the admissions process. Previous work in this area has shown that prohibiting affirmative action causes inefficiency when college...

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A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209

Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2005

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Early Intervention to Prevent Persistent Homelessness : Predictive Models for Identifying Unemployed Workers and Young Adults who become Persistently Homeless

Toros, Halil - 2019

Two new predictive screening tools that are based on analyzing records of over one-million people who experienced homelessness have been placed in the public domain by the Economic Roundtable. The two groups targeted by these tools are low-wage workers who have just lost their jobs and youth...

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10-Year Strategy to End Homelessness

Flaming, Daniel - 2016

The acute deprivation, desperation, and chaos inherent in homelessness destabilize the lives of individuals and also communities. In restoring shelter and intactness to the lives of placeless residents we also restore the health of our communities. This is a crisis that truly confronts every...

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Social Security and Gender : Brazilian and World Practices

Beltrao, Kaizo I.; Novellino, Maria S.; Barreto de … - 2002

Social security is concerned on easing the impact of contingencies that lead to capacity loss for generating income. There are, however, conceptual differences between genders with respect to social security contributions and benefits. This text is concerned with equality and specificity in the...

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