Invisible Barriers
Understanding and Overcoming Discrimination in the Workplace
Will be published approx. on 27. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-262-55213-4 (ISBN)
Description
"An overview of the literature on labor market discrimination across multiple dimensions"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Illustrations
4 FIGURES
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
366 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-55213-4 (9780262552134)
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Stephane Carcillo | Marie-Anne Valfort
Invisible Barriers
Understanding and Overcoming Discrimination in the Workplace
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Persons
Stéphane Carcillo is an economist and Associate Professor and Researcher at Sciences Po (Paris), specializing in labor market developments and policies. He is the coauthor of the graduate textbook Labor Economics (MIT Press) and a member of the Advisory Committee on Discrimination at the French Ombudsman.
Marie-Anne Valfort is an economist and Associate Professor at the Paris School of Economics, specializing in research on discrimination across a broad spectrum. She is the coauthor of the 2016 book Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies (Harvard University Press). In 2022, she received the LGBT+ Role Model Ally Award by L’Autre Cercle, the leading French NGO advocating for LGBTIQ+ inclusion in workplaces.
Marie-Anne Valfort is an economist and Associate Professor at the Paris School of Economics, specializing in research on discrimination across a broad spectrum. She is the coauthor of the 2016 book Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies (Harvard University Press). In 2022, she received the LGBT+ Role Model Ally Award by L’Autre Cercle, the leading French NGO advocating for LGBTIQ+ inclusion in workplaces.
Content
Part 1. Concepts and methods
Chapter 1: What is labor market discrimination?
Chapter 2: Why fight discrimination?
Chapter 3: The challenge of identifying discrimination with representative surveys
Chapter 4: Measuring discrimination with experiments
Part 2. The evidence on discrimination
Chapter 5: Gender equality: A difficult battle to win
Chapter 6: The effects of race, ethnicity, and religion
Chapter 7: The burdens of age
Chapter 8. The advantages conferred by beauty
Chapter 9. Sexual orientation and gender identity: just private matters with no bearing on the labor market?
Part 3. Combating Discrimination
Chapter 10: The limits of anti-discrimination legislation
Chapter 11. Beyond anti-discrimination legislation
Chapter 12. Ensuring equal opportunities upstream of the labor market
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: What is labor market discrimination?
Chapter 2: Why fight discrimination?
Chapter 3: The challenge of identifying discrimination with representative surveys
Chapter 4: Measuring discrimination with experiments
Part 2. The evidence on discrimination
Chapter 5: Gender equality: A difficult battle to win
Chapter 6: The effects of race, ethnicity, and religion
Chapter 7: The burdens of age
Chapter 8. The advantages conferred by beauty
Chapter 9. Sexual orientation and gender identity: just private matters with no bearing on the labor market?
Part 3. Combating Discrimination
Chapter 10: The limits of anti-discrimination legislation
Chapter 11. Beyond anti-discrimination legislation
Chapter 12. Ensuring equal opportunities upstream of the labor market
Conclusion
Acknowledgements