Did the great recession trigger 'pent-up' age discrimination?

Did the great recession trigger 'pent-up' age discrimination?
- April 9, 2014
- Research by David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, and Patrick Button, economics graduate student, is featured in Bloomberg Businessweek April 9, 2014
From Bloomberg Businessweek:
A new academic study argues that state age-discrimination laws didn’t help and may
even have hurt older workers during and after the Great Recession. According to one
possible explanation offered in the paper, strong state laws made it hard for employers
to discriminate against older workers in ordinary times, creating “pent-up demand”
to ditch them when the recession hit. That is a “conjecture,” not a proven fact, authors
David Neumark and Patrick Button of the University of California, Irvine concede in
the April 7 issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter.
For the full story, please visit http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-09/did-the-great-recession-....
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