This paper develops methods for detecting discrimination by individual employers using correspondence experiments that send fictitious resumes to real job openings. We establish identification of higher moments the distribution job‐level callback rates as a function number sent each and propose shape‐constrained estimators these moments. Applying our three experimental data sets, we find striki...

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...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how anti-discrimination legislation in the form of the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) affected socioeconomic disparities in the employment rates of people with a limiting long-term illness (LLTI) or disability. DESIGN National cross-sectional data on employment rates for people with and without an LLTI or disability were obtained from the General Household Sur...

Objective: To investigate how anti-discrimination legislation in the form of the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) affected socioeconomic disparities in the employment rates of people with a limiting long-term illness (LLTI) or disability. Design: National cross-sectional data on employment rates for people with and without an LLTI or disability were obtained from the General Household Sur...