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Unequal jobs or unequal pay?
Author(s) -
Horrell Sara,
Rubery Jill,
Burchell Brendan
Publication year - 1989
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.1468-2338.1989.tb00065.x
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , work (physics) , labour economics , economics , business , demographic economics , actuarial science , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , machine learning
This article draws on new data to consider whether women would benefit most from upgrading the skill levels of their jobs or from achieving equal pay for work of equal value. It looks in detail at skill, gender, and whether work is full‐time or part‐time, concluding that reassessment of the value of women's jobs would be of greater immediate financial benefit to women than upgrading the skill level of their jobs unless this upgrading gave them access to men's jobs at men's pay and benefit rates.