The Comparable Worth Controversy
Seiten
1986
Brookings Institution (Verlag)
978-0-8157-0041-8 (ISBN)
Brookings Institution (Verlag)
978-0-8157-0041-8 (ISBN)
The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth. Henry J. Aaron and Cameran M. Lougy review the conditions that have sparked the debate and unravel the implications of comparable worth for employers in public and private sectors, for labour union agendas and employer-employee negotiations.
The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth, that is, equal pay for work judged to be of equal value. Government, business, labor unions, and the courts have been forced to consider whether workers in dissimilar jobs of comparable worthmeasured by such criteria as working conditions, degree of difficulty, and knowledge and responsibility requiredshould receive equal wages, and how wage adjustments can be implemented.The issue has provoked inflated rhetoric, litigation, and considerable confusion.
In this concise study, Henry J. Aaron and Cameran M. Lougy review the conditions that have sparked the debate and unravel the implications of comparable worth for employers in public and private sectors, for labor union agendas and employer-employee negotiations, and for the administrative and and judicial burdens of the nation's courts. The authors conclude with general guidelines for implementing wage adjustments in ways that would not seriously disrupt society or have a major impact on overall economic efficiency.
The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth, that is, equal pay for work judged to be of equal value. Government, business, labor unions, and the courts have been forced to consider whether workers in dissimilar jobs of comparable worthmeasured by such criteria as working conditions, degree of difficulty, and knowledge and responsibility requiredshould receive equal wages, and how wage adjustments can be implemented.The issue has provoked inflated rhetoric, litigation, and considerable confusion.
In this concise study, Henry J. Aaron and Cameran M. Lougy review the conditions that have sparked the debate and unravel the implications of comparable worth for employers in public and private sectors, for labor union agendas and employer-employee negotiations, and for the administrative and and judicial burdens of the nation's courts. The authors conclude with general guidelines for implementing wage adjustments in ways that would not seriously disrupt society or have a major impact on overall economic efficiency.
Henry J. Aaron is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair. Among his many books are Can We Say No? The Challenge of Rationing Health Care, with William B. Schwartz and Melissa Cox (Brookings, 2006), and Reforming Medicare: Options,Tradeoffs, and Opportunities, written with Jeanne Lambrew (Brookings, 2008). Cameran M. Lougy is a former research assistant in the Brookings Economic Studies program.
Contents:
Male and Female Earnings:
The Facts and What They Mean
How Wages Are Set
Job Evaluation
What Comparable Worth Entails
An Agenda
Appendix
Index
| Reihe/Serie | Studies of Government Finance: Second Series |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 3 tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8157-0041-5 / 0815700415 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8157-0041-8 / 9780815700418 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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