Preferential Remedies for Employment Discrimination

Discrimination in Employment

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION IN THE FIRM: DOES THE LEGAL SYSTEM PROVIDE REMEDIES FOR WOMEN AND MINORITY MEMBERS OF THE BAR? Eyana

It has been fifty years since the ratification of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and still a question remains as to whether legal professionals, primarily attorneys, have a rightful claim under Title VII against their employers for acts of employment discrimination. The case law in this area is sparse; this is partly because of the reluctance of attorneys to speak out against discri...

Discrimination in employment--remedies--standards governing backpay awards for violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Classification with No Discrimination by Preferential Sampling

The concept of classification without discrimination is a new area of research. (Kamiran & Calders, ) introduced the idea of Classification with No Discrimination (CND) and proposed a solution based on “massaging” the data to remove the discrimination from it with the least possible changes. In this paper, we propose a new solution to the CND problem by introducing a sampling scheme for making ...

Employment discrimination against immigrants 1 Running head: Employment discrimination against immigrants The Skill Paradox: Explaining and Reducing Employment Discrimination against skilled Immigrants

Using a social identity theory approach, we theorized that recruiters might be particularly biased against skilled immigrant applicants. We refer to this phenomenon as a skill paradox, according to which immigrants are more likely to be targets of employment discrimination the more skilled they are. Furthermore, building on the common ingroup identity model, we proposed that this paradox can be...