Competition, small business financing, and discrimination: Evidence from a new survey

KS Cavalluzzo, LC Cavalluzzo, JD Wolken - The Journal of Business, 2002 - JSTOR
We analyze credit applications, loan denials, and interest rates paid by small businesses
across owner gender, race, and ethnicity. In addition, we examine data from owners who …

An organizational approach to understanding sex and race segregation in US workplaces

T McTague, K Stainback, D Tomaskovic-Devey - Social Forces, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This article examines the influence of resource dependence and institutional processes on
post-Civil Rights Act changes in private sector workplace segregation. We use data …

Racial discrimination in the workplace: does market structure make a difference?

MG Coleman - Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
For some time, social scientists have debated whether market competition reduces racial
discrimination. The failure to recognize that racial discrimination may be practiced not only in …

Gender difference in access and intervention outcomes: the case for women with disabilities

AK Mwachofi - Disability and Rehabilitation, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose. This study replicated the one that was conducted 30 years ago to determine
systematic gender differences in access and outcomes of vocational rehabilitation services …

[PDF][PDF] Influence du capital humain et du capital social sur les caractéristiques de l'emploi chez les diplômés postsecondaires au Canada

PC Kamanzi - 2006 - collectionscanada.gc.ca
Résumé Dans quelle mesure la scolarité et les relations sociales influencent-t-elles la
distribution des occupations sur le marché d'emploi? Plusieurs recherches s' inspirant de la …

Regulated industries and measures of earnings discrimination

JS Heywood, KG Husbands - Regulatory reform and labor markets, 1998 - Springer
Discrimination in the labor market can fairly be listed among the handful of issues
commanding the greatest policy and research attention. The contributions of economists in …

Contesting the magic of the market-place: Black employment and business concentration in the urban context

G Coleman - Urban Studies, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
The spatial decentralisation of urban firms has been the primary focus of urbanists seeking
to understand how Black employment is impacted by the changing nature of business in the …

Product market structure and gender discrimination in the United Kingdom

C Belfield, JS Heywood - Product Market Structure and Labor …, 2006 - books.google.com
In his classic study of nearly a half century ago, Gary Becker (1957) identified that nonwhite
males held a lower proportion of manufacturing jobs in the southern United States in those …

The decreasing influence of domestic market structure on racial earnings differentials: 1984 to 1996

J Agesa, K Monaco - Contemporary Economic Policy, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the market concentration/racial earnings discrimination relationship
in two periods: 1984–90 and 1991–96. In each period, the racial wage gap and the residual …

Privatization and changes in the wage structure: evidence from firm personnel records

B Melly, PA Puhani - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel
datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for …