The CEE Mission
The UMass Center for Unemployment Equity (CEE) conducts research on workplace equity, disseminating results widely to the public, policymakers, agencies, and the media. We are committed to documenting progress (and, when necessary, regress) toward our shared national goals of equitable diverse workplaces. Our work provides scientifically careful analyses and curated data to the community of citizens, employers, and policy makers concerned with promoting equitable workplaces.
CEE Projects
CEE Reports
Onboarding Young Workers in a Post-Pandemic World
Reyna Orellana & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
In this report, we focus on what they see as working and what tends to fail when onboarding new young employees. Our goal is to help employers examine their hiring and onboarding practices, increase the speed at which new hires become productive team members, and reduce the high financial and emotional cost of turnover from failed hires.
Is Tech Sector Diversity Improving?
JooHee Han & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
At the Center for Employment Equity we believe that the first step for public accountability is the “count and compare” strategy. If diversity in Tech is possible now, and we believe it is, then we expect to see firm variation in both the levels and trends in diversity. The rest of this report explores this possibility.
Who Files Discrimination Charges?
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey & Carly McCann
It has been sixty-five years since the 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed employment discrimination and created the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Although we are many decades past the moments when bases for discrimination in employment were made illegal, we know surprisingly little about discrimination charges. In this article, we ask who files discrimination charges, comparing charge rates on the bases of sex, race, national origin, age, and disability.