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Author Staff, National Research Council

Title Pay Equity : Empirical Inquiries
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents ""Pay Equity""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS""; ""PANEL MEMBERS""; ""RESEARCHERS""; ""DISCUSSANTS""; ""STAFF""; ""GUESTS""; ""PAY EQUITY: ASSESSING THE ISSUES""; ""THE EMPERICAL INQUIRIES""; ""Gender Differences in Wages: Wage Determination for Individuals""; ""Male-Female Salaries and Promotions in a Large, Private Firm""; ""Occupational Segregation and Earnings""; ""Labor Market Crowding and Earnings of Women""; ""Sex-Role, Occupational Choice, and Salary""; ""Jobs and Occupations as the Unit of Analysis""
""Effects of Demographic Composition on Pay Rates for Jobs""""Occupational Differences and Earnings""; ""Implementation of Comparable Worth Policies""; ""Iowa's Comparable Worth Plan""; ""Pay Equity in Minnesota""; ""Women's Pay in Australia, Great Britain, and the United States""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Research Consensus""; ""Research Needs""; ""PART I GENDER DIFFERENCES IN WAGES: WAGE DETERMINATION FOR INDIVIDUALS ""; ""1 Salaries, Salary Growth, and Promotions of Men and Women in a Large, Private Firm ""; ""The Firm""; ""Method""; ""Sample and Measures""; ""Analyses""; ""Results""
""Decomposition of Salary Differences""""Decomposition of Salary Growth Differences""; ""Decomposition of Promotion Differences""; ""Effect of Percentage Female""; ""Discussion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""COMMENTARY""; ""References""; ""2 Measuring the Effect of Occupational Sex and Race Composition on Earnings ""; ""Research Method""; ""Discussion of the Data""; ""Empirical Results""; ""Jobs with a Disproportionate Number of Women and Minorities""; ""Empirical Results by Industrial Sector""; ""Summary and Conclusion""; ""References""
""3 Effects of Excess Supply on the Wage Rates of Young Women """"Investigating Crowding Effects""; ""Differences in Female Labor Markets""; ""Differences by Occupation""; ""Methods""; ""General Labor Market Variables""; ""Key Explanatory Variables""; ""Empirical Results""; ""Occupation""; ""Personal Characteristics""; ""Alternative Causal Explanations""; ""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""4 The Effects of Sex-Role-Related Factors on Occupational Choice and Salary ""; ""The Occupational Choices of Men and Women""; ""The Influence of Sex-Role-Related Factors""
""Occupational Information""""Self-Confidence""; ""Risk-Taking Behavior""; ""Integrating Sex-Role-Related Factors""; ""Summary and Implications""; ""References""; ""PART II JOBS AND OCCUPATIONS AS THE UNIT OF ANALYSIS ""; ""5 Pay the Man: Effects of Demographic Composition on Prescribed Wage Rates in the California Civil Service""; ""The Setting""; ""Hypotheses""; ""Data and Methods""; ""The Sample""; ""Operationalization""; ""Cross-Sectional Analyses""; ""Effects of Demographic Composition""; ""Educational and Experience Requirements""
Notes ""Penalties Associated with the Presence of Women and Nonwhites in a Job""
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Subject Pay equity -- Congresses
Wages.
Pay equity
Wages
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Michael, Robert T
Hartmann, Heidi
ISBN 9780309542975
0309542979