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Verkerke, J. H.; Epstein, Richard A.

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“…Critics of Epstein have noted that Jim Crow laws, while mandating segregated schools, busses, and marriages, almost never regulated labor markets. See Verkerke (1992). Labor market impediments were far broader than mere governmental restrictions.…”

Section: Becker's Taste For Discrimination Modelmentioning

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“…Epstein (1992, p. 245) attributes the surge of black employment to the federal government's attack on Jim Crow regulation, pointing out that South Carolina had a 1915 statute, not formally repealed until 1972, mandating segregation in textile factories. Verkerke (1992Verkerke ( , p. 2091 responds that nearby southern states also had highly segregated textile factories but no express segregation law.…”

Section: Empirical Studies Of Employment Discrimination Lawmentioning

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Employment Discrimination

Schwab

1999

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This article first parses the multiple overlapping definitions of discrimination, including distinctions between group and individual discrimination and between segregation and discrimination in pay. The article then summarizes the major economic models of discrimination, particularly Becker's taste-for-discrimination model and statistical-discrimination models, as well as sorting and status-production models. The discussion focuses on the conditions under which markets will tend to eliminate discrimination, noting that this occurs in a more limited range of situations than commonly recognized. The article next surveys the economic role of antidiscrimination laws, evaluating arguments that the law speeds the journey to a non-discriminatory equilibrium and that the law breaks social norms perpetuating inefficient discrimination. Finally, the article examines empirical studies of employment discrimination laws, including analyses of litigation trends and of the laws' effects on labor markets.

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Section: Becker's Taste For Discrimination Modelmentioning

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Section: Empirical Studies Of Employment Discrimination Lawmentioning

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Employment Discrimination

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1999

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The Private Society and the Liberal Public Good in John Locke's Thought

Claeys

2008

Soc Phil Pol

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This essay interprets John Locke's teachings about private societies, or free private associations. The essay proceeds by interpreting Locke's mature writings on ethics, politics, and philosophy, and then by illustrating Locke's teachings as they apply to two contemporary problems in associational freedom. Although Locke wrote about private societies primarily in the course of arguing for religious toleration, throughout his mature corpus he develops an internally consistent general theory of associational freedom. At first glance, Locke seems to suggest that all citizens are entitled to associate for any end of their choosing, to control admission into and expulsion from their membership, and to enforce their own internal rules of governance. However, Locke qualifies this broad right to bar societies from organizing around ends inconsistent with the minimal moral and political conditions of liberalism. Ultimately, Locke suggests, citizens deserve a broad right of private society only to the extent that they are well enough formed by their regime and its private institutions to be capable of governing themselves in both private and public life.In contrast with contemporary practice, Locke's justification is broader in some respects and narrower in others. The essay illustrates the implications by considering how Locke's teachings justify limiting the scope of anti-discrimination laws and enlarging the scope of government efforts to dissolve seditious associations.

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The Private Society and the Liberal Public Good in John Locke's Thought

Claeys

2007

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