Ban-the-box (BTB) laws are a widely used public policy rooted in employment law related to unnecessarily exclusionary … hiring practices. BTB laws are intended to improve the employment opportunities of those with criminal backgrounds by giving … employers, have no systematic or statistically significant association with employment of low-educated men, both young and old …

discrimination in the labor market. Changes in tariffs and initial employment structures are used to show that, in locations where … decline were more pronounced in regions with more employment in concentrated sectors. The effect of increased competition on … the racial wage gap was not driven by changes in returns to productive attributes, in the structure of employment, or in …

This paper exploits variation in timing and outcomes of employment discrimination lawsuits against US law enforcement … agencies to estimate the cumulative employment effects of temporary, externally-imposed affirmative action (AA). To estimate … data we show that relative to national trends AA increases black employment at all ranks by between 4.5 and 6.2 percentage …

The Great Recession had a devastating impact on labor force participation and employment. This impact was not unlike … unusual pattern of recovery in employment by race. The black employment-population ratio has increased since bottoming out in … 2010, while the white employment-population ratio has remained flat. This paper examines trends in labor force …