Racial Discrimination in Employment in Canada

The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets.

Persistent racial inequality in employment, housing, and a wide range of other social domains has renewed interest in the possible role of discrimination. And yet, unlike in the pre-civil rights era, when racial prejudice and discrimination were overt and widespread, today discrimination is less readily identifiable, posing problems for social scientific conceptualization and measurement. This ...

Discrimination in Employment

Racial discrimination in pain management*

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The vulnerability of certain races and ethnicities may be worsened by the subjectivity of pain. So, this study aimed at identifying whether there has been racial discrimination in pain control by health professionals. CONTENTS: This is a literature review and queried databases were: PubMed/Medline, LILACS, SciELO, Cochrane, EMBASE, SCOPUS and psycINFO with keywords in...

Racial Differences in Post - Prison Employment

This paper explores the determinants of post-prison employment among a sample of ex-offenders released from Maryland prisons. A reduced-form equation for average weekly hours worked in the first year after release was estimated for blacks and whites. The following results emerge. Background variables have strong effects on employment. In particular, race has a consistently strong impact on labo...

Running Head: CONSUMER RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Consumer Racial Discrimination in Tipping: A Replication and Extension

This study examines the effects of server race, customer race and their interaction on restaurant tips while statistically controlling for the customers’ perceptions of service quality and other variables. The findings indicate that consumers of both races discriminate against black service providers by tipping them less than white service providers. Furthermore, this server race effect on tipp...