Lahey, Joanna - Center for Retirement Research (CRR), Boston College - 2006
provides evidence that age discrimination laws belong to this perverse class. It exploits an unusual aspect of the policy for … enforcement of the federal 1968 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which made filing an age discrimination claim less … percentage points less likely to be hired. These findings suggest that in an anti-age discrimination environment, firms seek to …