The Law and Economics of Antidiscrimination Law

Donohue, John J.

doi:10.3386/w11631

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“…They also touch on socially undesirable, illegal and commercially sensitive factors that invite misrepresentation in both survey and interview contexts. Former Ansett employees' questionnaire self-reports do not constitute practically adequate evidence of discrimination, but supplementing their comments with the views of airline recruitment personnel would not necessarily improve matters, since discriminators rarely perceive their own conduct as discriminatory (Donohue, 2005).…”

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Discrimination, labour markets and the labour market prospects of older workers: what can a legal case teach us?

Weller

2007

Work, Employment and Society

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As governments become increasingly concerned about the fiscal implications of the ageing population, labour market policies have sought to encourage mature workers to remain in the labour force. The 'human capital' discourses motivating these policies rest on the assumption that older workers armed with motivation and vocational skills will be able to return to fulfilling work. This paper uses the post-redundancy recruitment experiences of former Ansett Airlines flight attendants to develop a critique of these expectations. It suggests that policies to increase older workers' labour market participation will not succeed while persistent socially constructed age-and gender-typing shape labour demand. The conclusion argues for policies sensitive to the institutional structures that shape employer preferences, the competitive rationality of discriminatory practices, and the irresolvable tension between workers' human rights and employers' property rights. KEY WORDSage / discrimination / recruitment / older workers / flight attendants

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Discrimination, labour markets and the labour market prospects of older workers: what can a legal case teach us?

Weller

2007

Work, Employment and Society

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“…Belief in the power of markets to eliminate discrimination can be challenged by the argument that imperfect competition is common in labour markets, although as we have seen in earlier chapters this claim is contested. However, more sophisticated analysis (see Donohue 2005) suggests that theoretical models may produce different outcomes depending on the distribution of discriminatory tastes and the size of the group discriminated against. For instance, if most employers are strong discriminators and the discriminated-against group is large, the outcome will be different from a situation where few employers discriminate and there are few in the discriminated-against group.…”

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Working to Rule: The Damaging Economics of UK Employment Regulation

Shackleton

2017

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“…A survey by Fang and Moro (2010) reviews theoretical models of statistical discrimination and affirmative actions. The interdisciplinary economic-legal paper by Donohue (2007) provides an overview of the connections between economic models and empirical findings on the one hand, and the U.S. anti-discrimination laws on the other. Charles and Guryan (2011) discuss several challenges that "frustrate empirical research" on racial labor market discrimination, including the difficulty of comparing individuals of different races who may systematically differ in terms of some unobserved or unobservable determinants, and the problems with the indirect testing of economic models (i.e., with testing their predictions), rather than directly testing the mechanism assumed by the model (i.e., prejudice for taste-based discrimination, and information limitation for statistical discrimination).…”

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A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis

Romei

Ruggieri

2013

The Knowledge Engineering Review

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The collection and analysis of observational and experimental data represent the main tools for assessing the presence, the extent, the nature, and the trend of discrimination phenomena. Data analysis techniques have been proposed in the last fifty years in the economic, legal, statistical, and, recently, in the data mining literature. This is not surprising, since discrimination analysis is a multi-disciplinary problem, involving sociological causes, legal argumentations, economic models, statistical techniques, computational issues. The objective of this survey is to provide a guidance and a glue for researchers and anti-discrimination data analysts on concepts, problems, application areas, datasets, methods and approaches from a multidisciplinary perspective. We organize the approaches according to their method of data collection as observational, quasi-experimental and experimental studies. A fourth line of recently blooming research on knowledge discovery based methods is also covered. Observational methods are further categorized on the basis of their application context: labor economics, social profiling, consumer markets, and others.

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The Law and Economics of Antidiscrimination Law

Cited by 12 publications

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Discrimination, labour markets and the labour market prospects of older workers: what can a legal case teach us?

Discrimination, labour markets and the labour market prospects of older workers: what can a legal case teach us?

Working to Rule: The Damaging Economics of UK Employment Regulation

A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis

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