How Minorities Continue to Be Excluded from Equal Employment Opportunities: Research on Labor Market and Institutional Barriers.

Abstract

Barriers to equal occupational opportunities for minorities are examined at three stages of the employment process: the job candidate stage, the job entry stage, and the job promotional stage. Using the authors' recent survey of 4078 employers covering a nationally representative sample of jobs, four types of exclusionary barriers are investigated: 'segregated networks' at the candidate stage, 'information bias' and 'statistical discrimination; at the entry stage and 'closed internal markets; at the promotion stage. Practical implications are drawn for equal employment opportunity policies directed toward occupational processes and employment outcomes. Keywords: Organization equity; Affirmative action; Race relations; Career mobility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA181946

Entities

People

  • James M. Mcpartland
  • Jomills H. Braddock Ii

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bias
  • Business Administration
  • Civil Rights
  • Discrimination
  • Employment
  • Equal Employment Opportunity
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Human Population
  • Information Science
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Minority Groups
  • Prejudice
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Students

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