Identifying and measuring diversity's payoffs: Light at the end of the affirmative action tunnel.

Abstract

Because affirmative action is a means for achieving diversity and is, the authors argue, not an end in and of itself, diversity as an end and a concept, along with diversity's payoffs, are highlighted here. Another reason for doing an end-run around affirmative action is that it is a code expression, conjuring up controversial and contentious affect, including reverse discrimination, quotas, and set-asides, which are anathema in the twilight of the 20th century. Hence, the authors' attention is on the bottom line, diversity, as a legitimate end whose payoffs are coveted by employers and institutions of higher learning. They then offer a scheme for selecting employees and students targeted for diversity's payoffs.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 19 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.