AMER.LABOR: Political Economy of Race, 1940-1960:Adoption of

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Name: William J. Collins
Email: william.collins@vanderbilt.edu
Institution: Vanderbilt University

Co-author: none

Title: The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1960: The Adoption of
State-Level Fair Employment
Legislation

Internet Address of abstracted work: not available

By mail:
Department of Economics
Box 35-B
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235

Language: English

Abstract:
This paper traces the diffusion of fair employment legislation at the
state level and evaluates the relative importance of various
demographic, political, and economic factors in the promotion of the
principle of government-enforced anti-discrimination policy. The
empirics indicate that non-southern states with higher proportions of
union members, Jews, and NAACP members tended to adopt fair
employment legislation earlier than other states. There is weaker
evidence that the likelihood of passage was higher in states with
more competitive political systems, higher in states with larger
Catholic populations, and higher in states whose neighbors had
already passed a law.

Bibliography: Collins, William J. "The Political Economy of Race,
1940-1960: The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation."
Manuscript, Vanderbilt University, 2000.

Subject: I,T,X
Geographical Area: 7
Country/Region: USA
Time Period: 9

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