From Bloomberg Businessweek:
A new academic study argues that state age-discrimination laws didn’t help and may even have hurt older workers during and after the Great Recession. According to one possible explanation offered in the paper, strong state laws made it hard for employers to discriminate against older workers in ordinary times, creating “pent-up demand” to ditch them when the recession hit. That is a “conjecture,” not a proven fact, authors David Neumark and Patrick Button of the University of California, Irvine concede in the April 7 issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter.

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