Download or read book The Effects of Comparable Worth in San Jose written by Marlene Kim and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparable Worth written by M. Anne Hill and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wage Gap and Comparable Worth written by James P. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparable Worth written by Elaine Sorensen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades women working as nurses, librarians, and secretaries have argued that they are paid less than men in jobs requiring comparable skill and effort. By the late 1980s, the notion of "comparable worth" had become a familiar one, and comparable worth initiatives were being developed to counteract the persistent disparities between male and female pay. In a comprehensive assessment of this policy, Elaine Sorensen lays out the various approaches states have taken, identifying the most and least successful among them. The author attributes part of the gender pay gap to economic discrimination and suggests theoretical models that best explain this discrimination. She examines the usefulness of comparable worth policies as a means of reducing male/female wage disparities. Minnesota's policies are examined in detail as an example of promising efforts in this regard. Sorensen ends by examining comparable worth's likely future fate in Congress and the courts. Elaine Sorensen is Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Economics of Comparable Worth written by Mark R. Killingsworth and published by W E Upjohn Inst for. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document concludes that the basic difficulty with comparable worth is that it is an ill-conceived solution to a serious problem and that alternative policies, such as equal employment opportunity legislation or application of antitrust laws, provide means of addressing employment discrimination that are both more effective and less likely to entail adverse side effects. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of comparable worth and describes the rest of the document. Chapter 2 discusses definitions, concepts, and analytical issues: the basic premises underlying comparable worth and practical details of implementing it, the nature of labor market discrimination and the question of whether equal pay for jobs of comparable worth is nondiscriminatory, and analysis of how adoption of comparable worth might affect wages and employment of men and women. Chapter 3 deals with empirical questions: conventional economic and comparable worth studies of the actual magnitude of the female/male pay gap, and methodologies for analyzing the actual effects on wages and employment where comparable worth policies have been adopted. Chapter 4 describes comparable worth policies in Minnesota state government employment. Chapter 5 describes comparable worth in San Jose, California, municipal government employment. Chapter 6 describes comparable worth in Australia. Chapter 7 provides a summary and conclusions. The document includes a 14-page reference list, 46 tables, 6 figures, and an index. (CML)
Download or read book Wage and Employment Effects of Comparable Worth written by Elaine Joy Sorensen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparable Worth written by Paula England and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Study of the Economics of a Comparable Worth Policy written by Elaine Joy Sorensen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparable Worth written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparable worthâ€"equal pay for jobs of equal valueâ€"has been called the civil rights issue of the 1980s. This volume consists of a committee report that sets forth an agenda of much-needed research on this issue, supported by six papers contributed by eminent social scientists. The research agenda presented is structured around two general themes: (1) occupational wage differentials and discrimination and (2) wage adjustment strategies and their impact. The papers deal with a wide range of topics, including job evaluation, social judgment biases in comparable worth analysis, the economics of comparable worth, and prospects for pay equity.
Download or read book Comparable Worth written by Virginia Dean and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of Comparable Worth written by Mark R. Killingsworth and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book The Study of the Economics of a Comparable Worth Policy written by Elaine Joy Sorensen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Econometric Analyses of the Empirical Consequences of Comparable Worth written by Ronald G. Ehrenberg and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a survey of the small, but growing, empirical literature by economists on the consequences of comparable worth. It discusses in turn studies of comparable worth's effects (or potential effects) on the male/female earnings gap, on female employment, on female labor supply and occupational mobility, and on women and their families as a group. The survey is critical in nature and areas in which further research is needed are indicated.
Download or read book Poverty and Discrimination written by Kevin Lang and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it. Using rigorous statistical analysis and economic thinking to judge what the best research is and which theories match the evidence, this book clears the ground for students, social scientists, and policymakers who want to understand--and help reduce--poverty and discrimination. It evaluates how well antipoverty and antidiscrimination policies and programs have worked--and whether they have sometimes actually made the problems worse. And it provides new insights about the causes of, and possible solutions to, poverty and discrimination. The book begins by asking, "Who is poor?" and by giving a brief history of poverty and poverty policy in the United States in the twentieth century, including the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Among the topics covered are the changing definition of poverty, the relation between economic growth and poverty, and the effects of labor markets, education, family composition, and concentrated poverty. The book then evaluates the evidence on racial discrimination in areas such as education, employment, and criminal justice, as well as sex discrimination in the labor market, and assesses the effectiveness of antidiscrimination policies. Throughout, the book is grounded in the conviction that we must have much better empirical knowledge of poverty and discrimination if we hope to reduce them.
Download or read book Equal Pay for Comparable Worth written by Frances Cornwall Hutner and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1986 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparable Worth written by Elaine Johansen and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1984-09-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
