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Title: The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960
Citation Type: Conference Paper
Publication Year: 2001
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Abstract: By the time Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 98 percent of non southern black (40 percent of all blacks) were already covered by state-level "fair employment" laws which prohibited labor and market discrimination. This paper assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black workers' income, unemployment, labor force participation, and occupational and industrial distributions relative to whites using a differences-in-differences-in-differences framework. In general, the fair employment laws appear to have had small or negligible effects on the labor market outcomes of black men but somewhat stronger positive effects on the labor market outcomes of black women.
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Authors: Collins, William J.
Conference Name: National Bureau of Economic Research, Development of the American Economy Program Meeting
Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity
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