Comparable Worth

Comparable Worth

Author: Paula England

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1351527355

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This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.


The Economics of Comparable Worth

The Economics of Comparable Worth

Author: Mark R. Killingsworth

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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This is an objective analysis of the implementation of comparable worth in a city government (San Jose, California), in a state government (Minnesota), and in an entire country (Australia). Explaining comparable worth in terms of economic theory, Killingsworth presents original econometric estimates of the effects of comparable worth on female-male relative wages and employment for the three locations. He develops and estimates two competing models: a conventional model, which relates individual worker's wages to worker's characteristics; and a comparable worth model, which relates wages of job classifications to job characteristics. Killingsworth concludes that conventional remedies to discrimination are a more promising approach than comparable worth for eliminating labor market discrimination. ISBN 0-88099-086-4: $22.95.


Comparable Worth and Gender Discrimination

Comparable Worth and Gender Discrimination

Author: Morley Gunderson

Publisher: Geneva : International Labour Office

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This valuable guide for policy-makers, an output of the ILO Interdepartmental Project on Equality for Women in Employment, highlights the advantages and importance of comparable worth for evaluating jobs and setting fair pay differentials. It also indicates the need for equal opportunity policies, and legislation against discrimination in recruitment and promotion, in order to reduce the gender pay gap.


Work in America [2 volumes]

Work in America [2 volumes]

Author: Carl E. Van Horn

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-12-15

Total Pages: 780

ISBN-13: 1576076776

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The first comprehensive analysis of work and the workforce in the United States, from the Industrial Revolution to the era of globalization. This comprehensive two-volume reference book is the first to analyze the central role of work and the workforce in U.S. life from the Industrial Revolution through today's information economy. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—economics, public policy, law, human and civil rights, cultural studies, and organizational psychology—its 256 entries examine key events, concepts, institutions, and individuals in labor history. Entries also tackle tough contemporary questions that reflect the conflicts inherent in capitalism. What is the impact of work on families and communities? On minority and immigrant populations? How shall we respond to changing work roles and the growing influence of the transnational corporation? Work in America describes and evaluates attempts to address social and class issues—affirmative action, occupational health and safety, corporate management science, and trade unionism and organized labor—and offers the kind of comprehensive understanding needed to discover workable solutions.


Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy

Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy

Author: Rita Mae Kelly

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1988-02-22

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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This collection of papers on comparable worth written by political scientists contains the best annotated bibliography on comparable worth that this reviewer has yet seen. One notable paper categorizes the 50 states as to whether they have conducted a comparable worth legislation, and have implemented comparable worth. Other contributors explain how job evaluation can be performed to implement comparable worth, describe the difficulties and possible bias in job evaluation methods, and present US case studies. . . . It has an outstanding bibliography and overview of many important issues. Choice Legislation outlawing sexual discrimination and mandating policies of equal pay for equal work has clearly failed to produce the intended results. Women workers continue to be paid substantially less than men, and more and more families headed by women have sunk below the poverty level. This volume of essays focuses on major issues that must be faced before a public policy promoting pay equity can become a reality. Combining the contributions of specialists from several disciplines, it offers statistical comparisons and analyses of wage inequities in various occupations, industries, and regions; case studies of comparable worth programs; and a conceptual framework for approaching the problem on a policy level.


Wage Justice

Wage Justice

Author: Sara M. Evans

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1991-04-23

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780226222608

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"This pathbreaking study sets forth the history of attempts to implement pay equity and evaluates the hidden costs of achieving equity. With candor and intelligence, the authors clearly detail the political, organizational, and personal consequences of comparable worth reform strategies. Using extensive data from Minnesota, where pay equity has proceeded further than in any other state in the nation, as well as comparative information from other states and localities, the authors expose the crucial initial steps which define public policy. "A perceptive and judicious analysis of comparable worth."—Wendy Kaminer, New York Times Book Review "Very well-crafted. . . . Wage Justice has admirably launched the scholarly evaluation of pay equity, revealing the unforeseen complexities of this key feminist public policy innovation."—Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Journal of American History "An insightful glimpse of the policy process."—Marian Lief Palley, American Political Science Review


Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences

Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences

Author: Jonathan Michie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 2166

ISBN-13: 1135932263

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This 2-volume work includes approximately 1,200 entries in A-Z order, critically reviewing the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory. In addition, nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy; management and business; human geography; politics; sociology; law; psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense.