Product market structure and labor market discrimination / edited by John S. Heywood and James H. Peoples.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heywood, John S., 1957-

Peoples, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social marketing.

Discrimination in employment.

Physical Description:

xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The influence of product market structure on labor market discrimination / John S. Heywood and James H. Peoples

Market power and racial earnings: a quantile regression approach / Jacqueline Agesa and Kristen Monaco

Product market structure and gender discrimination in the United Kingdom / Clive Belfield and John S. Heywood

Gender and wages in Germany: the impact of product market competition and collective bargaining / Uwe Jirjahn and Gesine Stephen

Gender composition and market structure in Hong Kong / John S. Heywood and Xiangdong Wei

Privatization and racial earnings differentials / James H. Peoples and Wayne K. Talley

New estimates of discrimination against men with disabilities: the role of customer interaction in the product market / Marjorie L. Baldwin

Regulatory reform and racial employment patterns / Kaye Husbands Fealing and James H. Peoples

Market structure, payment methods, and racial earnings differences / John S. Heywood and Patrick L. O'Halloran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

079146623X

9780791466230

9780791466247

0791466248

OCLC:

58526407