Do State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? Experimental (and Nonexperimental) Evidence
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- David Neumark & Ian Burn & Patrick Button & Nanneh Chehras, 2017. "Do State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? Experimental (and Nonexperimental) Evidence," Working Papers wp360, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
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