The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) prohibits age-based discrimination against older workers through hiring, firing, layoffs, compensation and other conditions of employment. The law covers most workers age 40 and older in firms with 20 or more employees. The question is whether the ADEA and similar state laws have helped or hurt older workers. On the one hand, the legislati...

Various attempts have been made to explain the sources of long-term discriminatory activity – behavior which does not seem to be profit-maximizing, and yet persists in the face of market competition. Research interest has focused on the effect of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and whether it has served to decrease employment discrimination or merely exposed firms to costly litigation. Follo...

It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited discrimination committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs which will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity.

It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited discrimination committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs which will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity.

It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited discrimination committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs which will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity.

It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited discrimination committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs which will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity.

The information contained in this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or opinion of the European Commission This publication is supported for under the European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity (2007-2013). This programme is managed by the Directorate-General for Employment, social affairs and equal opportunities of the European Commission. It was estab...

EXECUTIVE Orders No. 11247 and No. 113751 require that federal contractors with a contract larger than $50,000 or with fifty or more employees develop and enforce a written plan of affirmative action that guarantees equal employment opportunity. Under these orders and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972,2 the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health, Education, and Welf...

The psychological underpinnings of labor market discrimination were investigated by having participants from Israel, the West Bank and Germany (N = 205) act as employers in a stylized employment task in which they ranked, set wages, and imposed a minimum effort level on applicants. State self-esteem was measured before and after the employment task, in which applicant ethnicity and sex were sal...

Congress enacted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the Act)' in an effort to eradicate specified categories of discrimination in private employment. Following the increased political enfranchisement of nondominant groups, the Act proclaimed an official end to the era of second-class status for women and minorities in the workforce.2 It promised a new era of economic and personal opport...