Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public PolicyPaul Burstein Although equal employment opportunity laws are often at the center of political debate, it has been difficult for students, teachers, and concerned citizens to learn about the controversy over EEO. Contributions to our understanding are scattered, this collection of writings is a broad interdisciplinary introduction to the struggle for EEO and its consequences. No other collection brings together articles on theories of dis-criminations; competing theories about the likely impact of EEO laws; analyses of the laws' impact on women, blacks, and other minorities; and debates about affirmative action. |
Contents
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Assimilation in the United States An Analysis of Ethnic and Generation Differences in Status and Achievement Lisa J Neidert and Reynolds Farley | 27 |
TwentyFive Years Later Where Do We Stand on Equal Employment Opportunity Law Enforcement? David L Rose | 39 |
Neoclassical Economists Theories of Discrimination Paula England | 59 |
Organizational Evidence of Ascription in Labor Markets James N Baron | 71 |
Equality and Efficiency Antidiscrimination Policies in the Labor Market Shelly J Lundberg | 85 |
Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law Lauren B Edelman | 247 |
Loading the Economy Orrin Hatch | 261 |
Businessmen Like to Hire by the Numbers Anne B Fisher | 269 |
Religious Pluralism Equal Opportunity and the State Gloria T Beckley and Paul Burstein | 281 |
Getting Women Work That Isnt Womens Work Challenging Gender Biases in the Workplace Under Title VII Maxine N Eichner | 297 |
Racial Discrimination 17 Years after the Act Colin Brown and Pat Gay | 315 |
The Effect of Britains AntiDiscriminatory Legislation on Relative Pay and Employment A Zabalza and Z Tzannatos | 329 |
Gender Stratification in Contemporary Urban Japan Mary C Brinton | 343 |
Strangers in Paradise Griggs v Duke Power Co and the Concept of Employment Discrimination Alfred W Blumrosen | 105 |
Redefining Discrimination Disparate Impact and the Institutionalization of Affirmative Action US Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy | 121 |
Is Title VII Efficient? John J Donohue III | 137 |
The Efficiency and the Efficacy of Title VII Richard A Posner | 147 |
Black Economic Progress after Myrdal James P Smith and Finis R Welch | 155 |
Continuous Versus Episodic Change The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks John J Donohue III and James Heckman | 183 |
MaleFemale Wage Differentials and Policy Responses Morley Gunderson | 207 |
The Law Transmission System and the Southern Jurisprudence of Employment Discrimination Alfred W Blumrosen | 231 |
Japans New Equal Employment Opportunity Law Real Weapon or Heirloom Sword? Jan M Bergeson and Kaoru Yamamoto Oba | 357 |
The Changing Culture of Affirmative Action William A Gamson and Andre Modigliani | 373 |
Trends in Whites Explanations of the BlackWhite Gap in Socioeconomic Status 19771989 James R Kluegel | 393 |
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Persuasion and Distrust A Comment on the Affirmative Action Debate Randall Kennedy | 413 |
Selected References | 427 |
Index | 433 |
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