The Political Economy of Race and the Adoption of Fair Employment Laws, 1940-1964
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JEL classification:
- J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2004-12-12 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-POL-2001-11-21 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-POL-2004-12-12 (Positive Political Economics)
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