Discerning Discrimination: Does Interviewing Firms Make a Difference?

Phillip Nelson and Solomon Polachek
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Phillip Nelson: SUNY, Binghamton

Eastern Economic Journal, 1995, vol. 21, issue 3, 393-398

Abstract: This paper examines the problems generated by three firm-based analyses of discrimination. Besides the detailed difficulties associated with each of these studies, a common failing is ignoring worker behavior, an error that can cause considerable bias in estimating discrimination.

Keywords: Bias; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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