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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED160675 AUTHOR: Bergmann, Barbara R.
TITLE: Labor Market Data Needs Relating to
Antidiscrimination Activities. Project on the Economics of
Discrimination.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 36 p.; Page 9, a statistical table, may be marginally
legible due to reproduction quality of the original
document
ABSTRACT: The utilization of data in combatting employment
discrimination against women and minorities is reviewed in
this paper. Suggestions are made for changes which would
allow better use of data in formulating national policy and
in enforcing the laws and executive orders against
discrimination. For purposes of overall policy formation,
emphasis is put on providing better information for
Hispanics, and in reforming labor turnover data so that
they
are more revealing of the extent to which discrimination
continues. Changes are suggested in the way employment and
unemployment data are collected and published, in order to
remove biases which minimize the problems of discriminated
against groups. With respect to data collected by the
agencies charged with enforcement of anti-discrimination
laws and executive orders, it is suggested that there be a
shift of emphasis from the collection of data on stocks
(numbers of employed) to data on flows (numbers of hires,
promotions, separations) by occupation, and that such data
be published by name of firm for large firms. It is also
suggested that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC) develop a methodology for issuing estimates of
availability by race x sex x occupation, and pair up such
estimates with the data by firm name suggested above.
(Author/GC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Occupational-Mobility
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Data-Collection; *Employment-Statistics;
*Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Labor-Market; *Racial
Discrimination; *Sex-Discrimination
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