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The impact of federal civil rights policy on black economic progress: Evidence from the equal employment opportunity act of 1972

Chay, Kenneth Y.·1998·ILR Review
DOI 10.1177/001979399805100404
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA) of 1972 extended civil rights coverage to employers with 15–24 employees, while leaving unaffected the civil rights protection for employees of larger firms. In conjunction with pre-existing state fair employment practice (FEP) laws, the EEOA provides a “natural experiment” in which the treatment and control groups are defined by differences across industries in the fraction of workers employed in the newly covered establishments and across states in the scope of the FEP laws. Applying the treatment and control group methodology to Current Population Survey data, the author finds that there were large shifts in the employment and pay practices of the industries most affected by the amendment. The timing of the relative gains and their concentration by industry and region provide evidence that the EEOA had a positive impact on the labor market status of African-Americans.

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Authors
Chay, K. Y.
Corresponding author
Chay, Kenneth Y.
Venue
ILR Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1998-07
Volume
51
Issue
4
Pages
608-632
ISSN
  • 0019-7939 (ISSN-L)
  • 2162-271X
DOI
10.1177/001979399805100404
OpenAlex
W2259884781
Cited by
120
References
31
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 2
FWCI
8.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Industrial and Labor Relations Review (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
Keywords
federal civil rights policy, African American employment, small employers, employment practices, pay practices, employment status, industry differences

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