This paper examines the development of the law and economics approaches to discrimination in employment. The early work … discharge cases, and the proliferation of employment discrimination laws that prohibit not only the core areas of race and sex …

effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the … and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage …

This chapter assesses how gender and disability status intersect to shape employment and earnings outcomes for working … employment and earnings outcomes for men and women with different types of physical and cognitive disabilities to those who … not specific to work, experienced large disparities in employment and earnings and these outcomes also varied for men and …

without a college education. Though wages and participation have fallen in tandem for this population, we argue that the …

explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by … comparing changes in wages and employment rates over the 1980s for different age and education groups in the United States …

The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly …