Rethinking Employment Discrimination Harms

Discrimination in Employment

Rethinking Employment Relations: the Social Bargain, Pensions,

Elevated unemployment rates since 2008 have given firms a bargaining power advantage over their employees, allowing employers to reduce wage and compensation growth, including the scope and amount of pension contributions. This paper argues that a more equitable approach to employment relations can promote distributively just labor market outcomes and improve macroeconomic performance. A strong...

Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century Employment Contract, Again

Legal historians have turned with renewed energy in recent years to the project of fleshing out the myriad rules by which the common law of the free labor employment contract structured social relations in nineteenth-century America. 1 Of course, labor relations have always been prominent in the literature. The German sociological tradition has long taught us to see in the legal protection of p...

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...

Unconscious Bias Theory in Employment Discrimination Litigation

Deborah, an African American woman, worked as an administrative assistant for her employer for several years. She consistently received positive performance reviews until she came under the supervision of a new administrative director, Joan, who is white. One of only a handful of minority employees, Deborah became subjected to increased scrutiny by Joan, who singled her out by requiring her to ...