New Study Shows That Asking for Salary History Perpetuates Systemic Racism
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng cited in Newsweek on the positive impact of salary history bans on women and Blacks.
Tag: Economic Inequality
Salary History Bans Are Actually Helping Women and Black People
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng cited in Quartz on the benefits to women and Blacks from salary history bans.
Black, Female Workers Benefit Most from Bans on Asking About Salary Histories
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng cited in Bizjournals on the benefits to women and Blacks from salary history bans.
Salary History Bans Boost Pay
James Bessen interviewed on Yahoo Finance on the effects of salary history bans on wages for women and minorities.
Research Finds Salary History Bans Help Women And Black Workers
Erich Denk and Chen Meng quoted in Forbes about the effects of salary history bans on workers’ salaries.
Study Finds Salary History Bans Boost Pay for African-Americans, Women
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng cited in the Wall Street Journal, about the effectiveness of salary history bans in reducing the pay gap for women and minorities.
Perpetuating Inequality: What Salary History Bans Reveal About Wages
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng
New research shows the positive effects of laws prohibiting employers from asking about job applicants’ prior salaries in reducing pay gaps for women and minorities.
Does Ride-sharing Discriminate?
Xavier Lambin and Emil Palikot
New research on the economic effects of prejudice against ethnic minority drivers, and ways to mitigate that prejudice.
Will artificial intelligence change the economy for the better?
Robert Seamans interviewed by the American Enterprise Institute on AI and the economy.
Toward Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor
Morgan R. Frank, David Autor, James E. Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, et al.
New research analyzing the barriers that inhibit accurately measuring the effects of AI and automation on the future of work and developing a decision framework that focuses on resilience to unexpected scenarios.