Product market structure and labor market discrimination

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Author:

Peoples, James.

ISBN:

9780791466230

Publication Information:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Physical Description:

xiii, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

The influence of product market structure on labor market treatment / by John S. Heywood and James Peoples -- Market power and racial earnings : a quantile regression approach / by Jacqueline Agesa and Kristen Monaco -- Product market structure and gender discrimination in the United Kingdom / by Clive Belfield and John S. Heywood -- Gender and wages in Germany : the impact of product market competition and collective bargaining / by Uwe Jirjahn and Gesine Stephen -- Gender composition and market structure in Hong Kong / by John S. Heywood and Xiangdong Wei -- Privatization and racial earnings differentials / by James Peoples and wayne K. Talley -- New estimates of discrimination against men with disabilities : the role of customer interaction in the product market / by Marjorie L. Baldwin -- Regulatory reform and racial employment patterns / by Kaye Husbands Fealing and James Peoples -- Market structure, payment methods and racial earnings differences / by John S. Heywood and Patrick Lee O'Halloran.

Subject Term:

Social marketing.

Discrimination in employment.

Added Author:

Peoples, James.

Heywood, John S., 1957-

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While increased competition may generate economic efficiency and push employee compensation to market rates, it may also help reduce differential treatment for protected groups such as women, minorities, and the disabled. This book presents the most comprehensive body of empirical evidence on the connection between the product market and the extent of discrimination in labor markets. The contributors look at data from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Hong Kong in order to explore the product market's influence on discrimination against the disabled, the role of deregulation in creating competition and altering racial employment patterns, and the influence of privatization on public employees' earnings. Nuanced analyses, using best practice econometrics, lead the contributors to conclude that while competition helps equalize treatment of employees, it does not eliminate discrimination.