TY  - JOUR
AU  - Collins,William J.
TI  - The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8310
PY  - 2001
Y2  - May 2001
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8310
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8310.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
William J. Collins
Department of Economics
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351819
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1819
Tel: 615/322-3428
Fax: NA
E-Mail: william.collins@vanderbilt.edu
AB  - By the time Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 98 percent of non-southern blacks (40 percent of all blacks) were already covered by state-level 'fair employment' laws which prohibited labor market discrimination.  This paper assesses the impact of fair employment legislation on black workers' income, unemployment, labor force participation, and occupational and industrial distributions relative to whites using a difference-in-difference-in-difference framework.  In general, the fair employment laws adopted in the 1940s appear to have had larger effects than those adopted in the 1950s, and the laws had relatively small effects on the labor market outcomes of black men compared to those of black women.
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