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The economic consequences of the Equal Pay Act 1970
Author(s) -
Sloane P. J.,
Chiplin B.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1970.tb00260.x
Subject(s) - inequality , economics , labour economics , equal opportunity , law and economics , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Will the Equal Pay Act result in increased or decreased employment of women? How inflationary will it be and how much will individual firms suffer? Will it be easily evaded? Will it attack the fundamental problem of inequality of opportunity for women? These are some of the questions which the authors attempt to answer.