Are Affirmative Action Hires Less Qualified? Evidence from Employer‐Employee Data on New Hires
利用美国四大都市区雇主-雇员数据，考察平权行动是否导致雇佣资质较差的少数族裔或女性员工，发现女性与少数族裔平权招聘者教育资质较低，但工作表现未见明显差距。
The authors use microlevel data on employers and employees from a sample of establishments in four major metropolitan areas in the United States to investigate whether Affirmative Action leads to the hiring of minority or female employees who are less qualified. Their measures of qualifications include the educational attainment of the workers hired and a variety of outcome measures related to worker performance on the job. The authors find evidence of lower educational qualifications among women and minorities hired under Affirmative Action. However, they do not find evidence of weaker job performance among most groups of minority and female Affirmative Action hires. Copyright 1999 by University of Chicago Press.