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The Impact of Affirmative Action Regulation and Equal Employment Law on Black Employment

Author(s) -

Jonathan S. Leonard

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.4.4.47

Subject(s) - affirmative action , executive order , race (biology) , order (exchange) , action (physics) , equal employment opportunity , law , employment discrimination , political science , labour law , sociology , economics , gender studies , physics , commission , finance , quantum mechanics

Was affirmative action successful in increasing employment opportunities for blacks? In this paper, affirmative action will refer to the provisions of Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246 in 1965, as amended by Richard Nixon's Executive Order 11375 [3 C.F.R. 169 (1974)]. Under Executive Order 11246, federal contractors agree “not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, nor national origin, and to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin” [3 C.F.R. 169 202(1) (1974)].

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