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Tags: SEX discrimination in employment; PAY equity; EQUAL pay for equal work; WAGE payment systems; WOMEN -- Employment
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- Gender-Based Wage Discrimination, Or Level of Analysis?: Aggregated vs. Organizational Data. Haberfeid, Yitchak; Shenhav, Yehouda // Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings;1987, p364
The twenty to twenty-five per cent differential between men's and women's salaries in Israel has remained �unexplained� by the application of the conventional wage discrimination model to aggregated data. Our study demonstrates that a portion of this gap can be explained with the...
- Opening Pandora's box. Bracebridge, Chris; Martin, Stefan // Employers Law;Mar2004, p8
Discusses the Equal Pay Review (EPR), a regulation advocated by the Equal Opportunities Commission in Great Britain which aims to close the gender pay gap between male and female employees. Percentage of the pay gap that exists between women and men employees; Benefits of the EPR to companies;...
- THE BURNING ISSUE. // Personnel Today;3/7/2006, p56
The article presents a humorous account of the gender pay gap in Great Britain. Overhauls of education, legislation and ingrained cultures in both the public and private sectors can help women in getting equal pay. Women in today's workplace are hampered by glass ceilings, glass cliffs, glass...
- Discrimination limits talent availability. Watson, Jenny // Employee Benefits;Apr2006, p20
The article discusses how the British economy can benefit from the Women and Work Commission's (WWC) proposal to address discrimination in employment. By closing the pay gap, individuals could enjoy the potential benefit of �23 billion a year. Skills shortages across the country could be...
- Comparable-worth adjustments: Yes. Galloway, Sue // American Libraries;Feb85, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p92
Comments on the discrimination against women employees in the United States. Valuation of predominantly female jobs; Historical roots of the disparity between male and female wages; Arguments for and against equal pay.
- Equal pay key in battle to attract the top talent. Doke, DeeDee // Personnel Today;11/26/2002, p8
Reports on the increasing importance of employers' ability to offer equal pay for women. Obstacles to gender equality in the workplace; Reasons behind continued gap between the two sexes in the business.
- The Gender Pay Gap: Have Women Gone as Far as They Can? Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. // Academy of Management Perspectives;Feb2007, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p7
The trends in the gender pay gap in the United States form a somewhat mixed picture. On the one hand, after a half a century of stability in the earnings of women relative to men, there has been a substantial increase in women's relative earnings since the late 1970s. One of the things that make...
- �EXISTEN BRECHAS SALARIALES POR G�NERO EN CHILE? Perneara, Marcela; Astudillo, Alvaro // Latin American Research Review;2010, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p191
In this article, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women in Chile. The data used are drawn from the Social Protection Survey, 2002-2006. In our estimations, we control for actual labor market experience and use an instrumental variable to...
- At Odds with American Reality. Berger, Brigitte // Society;Jul/Aug85, Vol. 22 Issue 5, p75
Comments on issues related to comparable worth in the U.S. in 1985. Perception on the role of work in the life of American women; Dangers of quasi-elitist view on the value of work to a democratic society; Reasons for the movement of women into labor market.
