Research Catalog

Title

The comparable worth controversy / Henry J. Aaron and Cameran M. Lougy.

Author

Aaron, Henry J.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, ©1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lougy, Cameran M., 1963-

Description

ix, 57 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Argues that job evaluation should be admitted as evidence of wage discrimination, but that wage disparities should be removed by trade union pressure and public wage fixing in addition to legal action. Considers that wage equality for women will have a negligible effect on the labour market.

Subject

• Pay equity > United States
• Equal pay for equal work > United States
• Equal pay for equal work
• Pay equity
• Frau
• Lohngleichheit
• Mann
• equal pay
• work of comparable worth
• sex discrimination
• wage differential
• wage determination
• job evaluation
• wage policy
• judicial decision
• statistical table
• égalité de rémunération
• travail de valeur comparable
• discrimination fondée sur le sexe
• disparité des salaires
• fixation du salaire
• évaluation de poste
• politique des salaires
• décision judiciaire
• tableau statistique
• igualdad de remuneración
• trabajo de valor comparable
• discriminación por razones de sexo
• diferencia del salario
• determinación del salario
• evaluación de tareas
• política salarial
• sentencia judicial
• cuadros estadísticos
• United States
• USA
• USA
• Etats-Unis
• Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

• graph.
• reference.
• graphique.
• référence bibliographique.
• gráfico.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Male and female earnings -- 2. How wages are set -- 3. Job evaluation -- 4. What comparable worth entails -- 5. An agenda.

ISBN

• 0815700415
• 9780815700418

LCCN

85048206

OCLC

• ocm14168075
• 14168075
• SCSB-1151092

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library