TY  - JOUR
AU  - Leonard,Jonathan S.
TI  - The Impact of Affirmative Action on Employment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1310
PY  - 1984
Y2  - October 1984
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1310
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1310.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jonathan S.. Leonard
Graduate School of Business
350 Barrows Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720
Tel: 415/642-7048
E-Mail: leonard@haas.berkeley.edu
AB  - Affirmative action under Executive Order 11246 ranks among the most controversial of domestic federal policies.This study asks whether affirmative action has been successful in promoting the employment of minorities and females. It compares the change in demographics between 1974 and 1980 at more than sixty-eight thousand establishments, and finds that both minority and female employment have increased faster at establishments subject to affirmative action. Compliance reviews, while not well targeted are also found to have been effective.
ER  -