TY - JOUR
T1 - Enforcement of civil rights law in private workplaces
T2 - The effects of compliance reviews and lawsuits over time
AU - Kalev, Alexandra
AU - Dobbin, Frank
PY - 2006/11
Y1 - 2006/11
N2 - Has federal antidiscrimination law been effective in moving women and minorities into management? Early studies show that government affirmative action reviews improved the numbers, and rank, of blacks, but evidence of what has happened since 1980 is sparse. There is little evidence that civil rights lawsuits improved the employment status of women or African Americans. We examine establishment-level effects of compliance reviews and lawsuits on the percentage of women and blacks in management. We find that compliance reviews, which alter organizational routines, had stronger and more lasting effects than lawsuits, which create disincentives to discriminate. We also fmd that deregulation was more consequential for compliance reviews than for lawsuits: Compliance reviews initiated in the 1980s were less effective than those initiated in the 1970s. Not so for lawsuits. Compared to lawsuits, compliance review.? appear to have a greater capacity to elicit lasting organisational change, but their effects are mediated by the regulatory environment.
AB - Has federal antidiscrimination law been effective in moving women and minorities into management? Early studies show that government affirmative action reviews improved the numbers, and rank, of blacks, but evidence of what has happened since 1980 is sparse. There is little evidence that civil rights lawsuits improved the employment status of women or African Americans. We examine establishment-level effects of compliance reviews and lawsuits on the percentage of women and blacks in management. We find that compliance reviews, which alter organizational routines, had stronger and more lasting effects than lawsuits, which create disincentives to discriminate. We also fmd that deregulation was more consequential for compliance reviews than for lawsuits: Compliance reviews initiated in the 1980s were less effective than those initiated in the 1970s. Not so for lawsuits. Compared to lawsuits, compliance review.? appear to have a greater capacity to elicit lasting organisational change, but their effects are mediated by the regulatory environment.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33845460631
U2 - 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2006.00038.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2006.00038.x
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AN - SCOPUS:33845460631
SN - 0897-6546
VL - 31
SP - 855
EP - 903
JO - Law and Social Inquiry
JF - Law and Social Inquiry
IS - 4
ER -
