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Civil Rights and Discrimination

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Dealing With Diversity: Changing Theories Of Discrimination, Deborah Calloway Jan 1995

Dealing With Diversity: Changing Theories Of Discrimination, Deborah Calloway

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Accommodating Pregnancy In The Workplace, Deborah Calloway Jan 1995

Accommodating Pregnancy In The Workplace, Deborah Calloway

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Race And Gender Discrimination In Bargaining For A New Car, Peter Siegelman, Ian Ayres Jan 1995

Race And Gender Discrimination In Bargaining For A New Car, Peter Siegelman, Ian Ayres

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More than 300 paired audits at new-car dealerships receal that dealers quoted significantly lower prices to white males than to black or female test buyers using identical, scripted bargaining strategies. Ancillary ecidence suggests that the dealerships' disparate treatment of women and blacks may be caused by dealers' statistical inferences about consumers' resercation prices, but the data do not strongly support any single theory of discrimination.


The Selection Of Employment Discrimination Disputes For Litigation: Using Business Cycle Effects To Test The Priest-Klein Hypothesis, Peter Siegelman, John J. Donohue Iii Jan 1995

The Selection Of Employment Discrimination Disputes For Litigation: Using Business Cycle Effects To Test The Priest-Klein Hypothesis, Peter Siegelman, John J. Donohue Iii

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Employment discrimination cases filed during recessions are more likely to settle after filing and less likely to be won by plaintiffs than those filed when the economy is strong. This model of litigation confirms two predictions of the Priest-Klein model of litigation. First, relatively weak cases (for either party) should be more likely to settle. Second, the party with the greater stake in litigation will have the higher win rate in adjudicated disputes; the special case of even stakes produces a 50 percent plaintiff win rate. The settlement process does not produce complete selection, however: the strong version of the …