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Gender, pay equity and equal value: A solution in search of a rationale?
Author(s) -
Sloane P. J.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.4090090508
Subject(s) - pay equity , equity (law) , economics , legislation , value (mathematics) , labour economics , gender pay gap , employment protection legislation , equal opportunity , equity value , public economics , political science , law , finance , economic growth , unemployment , wage , debt , machine learning , debt levels and flows , external debt , computer science
In many countries equal pay legislation has been extended to embrace the concept of equal value. This paper addresses the question of equity in the labour market and argues that much of recent policy is misconceived. Occupational crowding is not the major cause of differences in pay between men and women. As a consequence it is doubtful if equal value policies are appropriate for eliminating such pay differences and they are also likely to have undesirable side effects.