Employers and employment systems have been inflexible when it comes to accommodating a woman’s dual role as childbearer and employee. This inflexibility is a frustrating inconvenience and harsh reality that women must confront daily. Women are being passed over for promotions, fired for...

Racial inequality in economic outcomes, particularly among the college educated, persists throughout US society. Scholars debate whether this inequality stems from racial differences in human capital (e.g., college selectivity, GPA, college major) or employer discrimination against black job...

This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...

This article reviews in detail the entire body of employment-related decisions of the 2012 October Term of the Supreme Court of the United States and provides a summary and author's commentary on each case. The article covers not only traditional employment decisions, but also arbitration, class...

The United States and the European Union are both firmly committed to eliminating gender discrimination. However, as I show in this article, they have adopted fundamentally different strategies in pursuing this objective: whereas the United States offers plaintiffs much more generous procedural...

Much employment discrimination law is premised on a purely money-focused ldquo;reasonablerdquo; employee, the sort who can be made whole with damages equal to lost wages, and who does not hesitate to challenge workplace discrimination. This type of ldquo;rationalrdquo; actor populated older...

I present a statistical discrimination model of the labor market in which employers endogenously learn about the productivity of worker groups through their hiring. Previous hiring experiences with groups shape subsequent incentives of profit-maximizing employers to hire from these groups again...

This article focuses on four fact patterns that confuse courts, scholars and employment lawyers in hostile work environment law. It employs masculinities theory and new research on the gendered nature of bullying to explain why the harassment in these fact patterns occurs because of sex. In the...

A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries across the world, and most report a substantial...

Do tight labor markets affect the employment and wages of women in blue collar-occupations? Tight labor markets may raise the cost of engaging in gender discrimination and may lead to fluctuations in gender discrimination both within and across industries depending on the degree of labor...