Another Analysis of the EEOCC "Four-Fifths" Rule

Anthony Boardman

Management Science, 1979, vol. 25, issue 8, 770-776

Abstract: Federal guidelines provide grounds for determining when a racial, ethnic or sex group has experienced discrimination in selection or promotion. This paper assumes that a predetermined number of people are selected or promoted and presents a simple model that computes the exact probabilities of type I and type II errors, that is, concluding adverse impact when none exists and concluding no adverse impact when it does, in fact, exist.

Keywords: government: regulations; statistics; labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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