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Do State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? Experimental (and Nonexperimental) Evidence

dc.contributor.authorNeumark, David
dc.contributor.authorBurn, Ian
dc.contributor.authorButton, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorChehras, Nanneh
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-22T13:28:21Z
dc.date.available2017-06-22T13:28:21Z
dc.date.issued2017-03
dc.identifier.citationNeumark, David, Ian Burn, Patrick Button, and Nanneh Chehras. 2017. “Do State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Laws Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? Experimental (and Nonexperimental) Evidence.” Ann Arbor, MI. University of Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) Working Paper, WP 2017-360. http://www.mrrc.isr.umich.edu/publications/papers/pdf/wp360.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/137637
dc.description.abstractWe provide evidence from a field experiment — a correspondence study — on age discrimination in hiring for retail sales jobs. We collect experimental data in all 50 states and then relate measured age discrimination — the difference in callback rates between old and young applicants — to variation across states in antidiscrimination laws offering protections to older workers that are stronger than the federal age and disability discrimination laws. We do a similar analysis for nonexperimental data on differences across states in hiring rates of older versus younger workers. The experimental evidence points consistently to evidence of hiring discrimination against older men and, more so, against older women. However, the evidence on the relationship between hiring discrimination against older workers and state variation in age and disability discrimination laws is not so clear; at a minimum, there is not a compelling case that stronger state protections reduce hiring discrimination against older workers. In contrast, the non-experimental evidence suggests that stronger disability discrimination protections increase the relative hiring of older workers.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Social Security Administration, RRC08098401, UM16-04; Alfred P. Sloan Foundationen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMichigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWP 2017-360en_US
dc.subjectolder workers, hiring discrimination, state lawsen_US
dc.titleDo State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? Experimental (and Nonexperimental) Evidenceen_US
dc.title.alternativeWP 2017-360en_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPopulation and Demography
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of California-Irvineen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of California-Irvineen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherTulane Universityen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of California-Irvineen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137637/1/wp360.pdf
dc.description.filedescriptionDescription of wp360.pdf : Working paper
dc.owningcollnameRetirement and Disability Research Center, Michigan (MRDRC)


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