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标题：Implementation and removal of an affirmative-action quota: The impact on task assignment and workers' skill acquisition
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作者：Nick Feltovich ; Lata Gangadharan ; Michael P. Kidd 等
期刊名称：Discussion Paper Series / Department of Economics, Monash University
出版年度：2012
卷号：1
出版社：Monash University
摘要：Both Canada and the United States have federal legislation that attempts to address employment inequities across specific target groups. The US has a long tradition of affirmative action, dating back to President Kennedy’s 1961 Executive Order; Canada enacted the Employment Equity Act in 1986. Employment Equity and Affirmative Action policy has attracted significant controversy, with high profile court cases and repeal of state/provincial legislation. Coate and Loury (1993) examines the theoretical impact of introducing affirmative action. Unfortunately the theoretical impact of affirmative action is ambiguous. The current paper employs a laboratory experiment to shed empirical light on the theoretical ambiguity.
关键词：statistical discrimination; signaling; positive discrimination; affirmative action;experiment