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An employment practice which has a disproportionate impact on women and cannot be ‘justified’ amounts to indirect sex discrimination under s 1(1)(b), Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA). It may also be unlawful under European Community law, in particular A 141 (equal pay) and the Equal Treatment Directive (76/207). The same formula is used to define indirect racial discrimination in s 1(1)(b), Ra...

We introduce coordination failures driven by beliefs regarding the presence of taste discriminators as a channel of discrimination in activities requiring the input of more than one individual for production to occur. We show discrimination can persist forever under perfectly observable ability, when taste for discrimination has died out, and under absence of discriminatory social norms. Empiri...

Supply-side Social Security reforms to increase employment and delay benefit claiming among older individuals may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between supply-side Social Security reforms and demand-side efforts to deter age discrimination, specifically studying whether stronger state-level age discrimination protections enhanced the impact of the inc...

Gender is a key factor operating in the health workforce. Recent research evidence points to systemic gender discrimination and inequalities in health pre-service and in-service education and employment systems. Human resources for health (HRH) leaders' and researchers' lack of concerted attention to these inequalities is striking, given the recognition of other forms of discrimination in inter...

Title of dissertation: ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AS A JUSTIFICATION OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION Eric Siegel, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Charles Stangor Department of Psychology This research explores the processes behind discrimination within organizations using the Justification-Suppression (JS) model (Crandall & Eshleman, 2006). According to the JS mo...

Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use perceptions. Adoption of pro-testing legis...

Disability, Gender and the Labour Market Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act. Significant heterogeneity within the disabled group is identifi...