Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes for Minority Workers

Health, employment, and financial outcomes in workers with occupational asthma.

OBJECTIVE To study the health, employment, and financial outcome of occupational asthma. DESIGN A follow study of workers with confirmed occupational asthma. SETTING A specialist occupational lung disease clinic. SUBJECTS All workers had a diagnosis of occupational asthma made at least one year earlier. Diagnosis was confirmed by serial peak expiratory flow measurement, specific bronchial...

Marriage Versus Employment: The Impact of Dual-Thin Markets on Employment Outcomes for Single Ph.D. Workers

This paper investigates the degree to which single Ph.D.-trained workers, both domestic and foreign-born, face trade-offs between marriage and labor market opportunities. Facing dual thin labor and marriage markets, highly trained foreign-born singles may be forced to choose between metropolitan areas that offer better employment opportunities or better marriage markets. Using U.S. Census data,...

Outing Outcomes: An Empirical Study of Confidential Employment Discrimination Settlements

Recent empirical studies on outconzes in enzployment discrimination litigation all reach the same conclusion: Plaintiffs have little chance of success. But these studies rely or? summary judgment decisions and trial verdicts, gleanedfiom reported opinions, electronic docket entries, and data collected by the Administrative Office of the Courts, and they acknowledge that this is just "the tip of...

Discrimination in Employment

Workers , Capitalists , Wages , and Employment ∗

Standard new Keynesian models assume the functional distribution of income is irrelevant. This stands in contrast to much of the public debate which presumes that a shift in the distribution of income towards workers will boost aggregate demand and employment. Under this latter view, falling wages during a recession can worsen unemployment. In contrast, neoclassical economics often views unempl...