Diminishing returns from statistical analysis: detecting discrimination in public employment.
A commentary on Pan Suk Kim and Gregory Lewis's “Asian Americans in the Public Service: Success, Diversity, and Discrimination, which appeared in Public Administration Review, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 285-290. The authors state that Asian Americans experience discrimination within the federal service,...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 57; pp. 264 - 267 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May/June 1997
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