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Articles by Patrick Button
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?
Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC
Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies
Patrick Button thanks the National Institutes of Health for funding via a postdoctoral training grant to the RAND Corporation (5T32AG000244-23), which funded their research from 2018 to 2019. We thank seminar participants at the APPAM, AEA, and AREUEA conferences, and Tulane University, and we thank Lei Gao, Andrew Hanson, Joanna Lahey, and Mike Martell for helpful comments, guidance, and discussions. We also thank Eva Dils and Ilan Gressel for excellent research assistance.
Do Stronger Employment Discrimination Protections Decrease Reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the U.S. Social Security Reforms | Center for Retirement Research
Abstract This paper examines spillovers onto Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) that occurred due to the Social Security Amendments of 1983, which, among other changes, gradually increased the retirement age for full benefits from 65 to 67.
Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment
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Expanding Employment Discrimination Protections for Individuals with Disabilities: Evidence from California
Effective 2001, California passed the Prudence Kay Poppink Act, which broadened California’s disability employment discrimination law to cover individuals with less-severe disabilities by lowering the burden of proof to establish a disability. Using both difference-in-differences and difference-in-difference-in-differences regression analyses and data from the Current Population Survey, the author estimates how this act affected the labor market outcomes for individuals with disabilities.
Age discrimination is alive and well
A half-century has passed since the federal government enacted a law designed to protect workers from employment discrimination based on age. Yet one of the largest-ever studies on age discrimination in hiring has found that the problem persists, and it’s worse for women than for men. Older job seekers often suspect they’re victims of age discrimination in hiring, but trying to prove it is another matter.
Age Discrimination and the Great Recession
The Great Recession led to large increases in unemployment rates and unemployment durations for workers of all ages, but durations rose far more for older workers than for younger workers. This difference was apparent both during and after the recession, fueling speculation that age discrimination played a role. Research indicates that in states with stronger age discrimination protections, older-worker unemployment durations increased more relative to increases for younger workers.
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