Equal Opportunity Within the Workplace

Equal Opportunity.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Structural Reform of the American Workplace

The role and effectiveness of large-scale employment discrimination litigation in combating workplace discrimination is a matter of ongoing dispute. In this paper we examine the remedies obtained by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in litigation filed over a ten-year period in order to compare actual outcomes in this important subset of employment discrimination litigatio...

Equal opportunity for all.

By sequencing tens of millions of TCRa transcripts from naive mouse CD8 T cells, Genolet et al (2012) show that the TCRa repertoire is at least as diverse as the TCRb repertoire. This overturns a long held view in the field that recombination of the Tcra locus occurs in a co-ordinate sequential bidirectional manner that relies on proximity of Va and Ja gene segments. The observation that rearra...

Tobacco: an equal-opportunity killer?

In their article, Jamrozik et al (see page 258) have explored the mortality hazard associated with smoking by gender and provide evidence that Australian men and women with similar smoking histories (namely, cigarettes smoked per day and time since quit) experience similar rates of death from smoking. Given the limitations of the data in this study, caution should be used in interpreting these ...

On the Design of Equal-opportunity Policies

We study in this paper mechanisms to construct equal-opportunity policies for resource allocation. In a model where individuals enjoy welfare as a function of the e ort they expend, and the amount of a socially provided resource they consume, the aim is to allocate the social resource so that the inequality of welfare across individuals at the same relative e ort level is minimized. In doing so...