The impact of EEOC enforcement on the wages of black and white women: does class matter?

Sarah Wilhelm
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Sarah Wilhelm: Fort Lewis College, School of Business Administration, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301, USA; Tel.: + 1-970-247-7236. wilhelm-s@fortlewis.edu

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2001, vol. 33, issue 3, 295-304

Abstract: The procedures used by the EEOC have been broadly criticized. The critiques are that the EEOC does not completely investigate all charges, and does not apply the law to the fullest benefit of discrimination victims. This paper contributes to these critiques with a finding that, among women, benefits from EEOC enforcement are funneled to white women and black women with relatively high levels of education. This distribution of benefits is due to the EEOC's investigation procedures.

Keywords: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Sex discrimination; Class discrimination; Race discrimination; Women-wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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