Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender

By William Darity, Patrick L. Mason. 1998

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On formalizing fairness in prediction with machine learning (2017, background): “In domains like employment, housing, credit and criminal justice, discrimination against protected groups has been well-documented [13, 14, 49, 77].”
FIELD EXPERIMENTS O F D ISCRIMINATION IN T HE MARKET PLACE (2002, unknown): “Heckman and Siegelman also emphasise the need to sample a range of skill levels to ensure accurate assessment of hiring behaviour (1993, p. 225), and Darity and Mason (1998) are criticised for omitting to acknowledge that hiring audits have primarily been concerned with entry level jobs in low…”
Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment (2005, result): “The general possibility of gender differences in racial discrimination receives some (but far from universal) support in previous studies of labor market outcomes [Kirschenman and Neckerman 1991; Darity and Mason 1998; Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004].”
Gender, work orientations and job satisfaction (2015, background): “On the one hand, a substantial body of research has documented gender inequality in the labour market and urged changes in policies to improve women’s working conditions (Anderson, 2001; Darity and Mason, 1998; Duncan and Loretto, 2004).”
Affirmative action: What do we know? (2006, unknown): “Affirmative Action in admissions to elite colleges and universities, as well as many graduate programs, does have large relative effects on the representation of minorities in these programs, even if the overall numbers of positions redistributed to them remain modest.”
Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Evidence from China* (2013, background): “Yet explicitly discriminatory actions, such as posting a job ad which states that a particular race or gender is preferred, were commonplace in the United States as recently as 1960 (Darity and Mason 1998).”
The Capability Approach: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (2003, background): “To quote 2 For empirical evidence of discrimination of women on the labour market, see, among others, (Darity and Mason 1998; Goldin and Rouse 2000; Neumark, Bank, and Van Nort 1996; Neumark and McLennan 1995; Wennerås and Wold 1997).”