To Confront or Not to Confront: Measuring Claiming Rates in Discrimination Grievances

Authors

Neil Vidmar, Duke Law SchoolFollow
Herbert M. Kritzer
W. A. Bogart

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1991

Abstract

This note reexamines the generally accepted belief that persons with discrimination-related grievances are much less likely to complain about their problem than are persons with grievances arising from consumer purchases, torts, or other common kinds of personal problems. We find that previously reported analyses greatly overstate the gap between complaining in discrimination problems and other kinds of problems. Drawing on data from three surveys, each conducted in a different country (the United States, Canada, and Australia), we find that for some types of discrimination problems the level of complaining in fact equals or exceeds complaining in other arenas.

Citation

Neil Vidmar et al., To Confront or Not to Confront: Measuring Claiming Rates in Discrimination Grievances, 25 Law & Society Review 875-887 (1991)

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