Comparable Worth: New Directions for Research

Type

Book

Authors

National Research Council

ISBN 10

0309035341

ISBN 13

9780309035347

Tags

Labor & Industrial Relations, Human Resources & Personnel Management, Minority Studies, Human Resources, Political Science

Description

Comparable worth--equal pay for jobs of equal value--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. - from Amzon

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