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Title: Just Who Loses? Discrimination in the United States, Volume 2

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: This book is the second volume of a three-volume analysis of discrimination. The first volume critiqued existing ways of thinking about discrimination and offered a new definition of discrimination more in line with how discrimination actually operates. This second volume takes the next step by providing empirical analyses of the effect of race and sex discrimination. To do so it first conveys a strategy to measure expected exposure to discrimination. Using this strategy to develop measures, it then studies the effect of anti-black discrimination on blacks and whites, and the effect of anti-female discrimination on women and men. Thirteen distinct outcomes are: special education placement (4th and 8th graders), measured mathematics achievement (4th and 8th graders), labor force participation, employment, hours worked, weeks worked, occupational socioeconomic status, allocation to a menial job (e.g., janitor), allocation to a professional job (e.g., lawyer), occupational segregation, earnings, poverty, and mortality. All but three are studied using IPUMS-CPS data. Just Who Loses? covers the major portions of the socioeconomic lifecycle while extending the analysis to the ultimate outcome of death. Across these many analyses, in most cases discrimination harms both the targeted group and the non-targeted group.

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Authors: Lucas, Samuel R.

Publisher: Temple University Press

Publisher Location: Philidelphia, PA

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Volume: 2

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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