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Female Pay: Has the State Unshackled the Market?
Author(s) -
Tzannatos Zafiris
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1986.tb01823.x
Subject(s) - legislation , buckingham , state (computer science) , economics , distortion (music) , law , labour economics , law and economics , political science , sociology , engineering , telecommunications , mathematics , media studies , amplifier , bandwidth (computing) , algorithm
Liberal economists view equal pay legislation for women as a distortion of market signals; interventionists approve of it for this very reason. Dr Zafiris Tzannatos, of the University of Buckingham, contends that unexpectedly, such legislation may have released the labour market from longer‐standing prejudicial distortions.