Age discrimination and the great recession
Age discrimination and the great recession
- April 7, 2014
- Research by David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, and Patrick Button, economics graduate student, is featured by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco April 7, 2014
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From the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco:
Increasing unemployment duration for older workers has led to speculation that age
discrimination may have played a role. Increased discrimination during poor labor
markets might be expected because long queues of job applicants allow employers to
apply more arbitrary selection criteria when making hiring decisions. … David Neumark
is Chancellor’s Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economics &
Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, and a visiting scholar at the
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Patrick Button is a Ph.D. candidate at the
University of California, Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2014....
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