Study: Age-bias laws failed older workers
Study: Age-bias laws failed older workers
- May 12, 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 the Orange County Register May 12, 2014
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From the OC Register:
Older workers in states with tougher laws against age discrimination faced longer
periods of unemployment after the 2007-2009 recession compared with younger workers
in those same states, according to a study by UC Irvine researchers. “These results
provide very little evidence that stronger state age discrimination protections helped
older workers weather the Great Recession,” David Neumark and Patrick Button wrote
in a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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