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Author: Buchele, Robert
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1. Aldrich, Mark
Buchele, Robert
Economics of Comparable Worth
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1986
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Ballinger Pub. Co.
Keyword(s): Comparable Worth; Discrimination, Sex; Earnings; Gender Differences; Occupational Segregation; Wage Gap

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The 1980 NLS Young Men's and Women's surveys provide the principle data base for research presented in this book on the role of occupational segregation in the male-female earnings gap and the impact of alternative comparable worth wage adjustments on men's and women's earnings.
Bibliography Citation
Aldrich, Mark and Robert Buchele. Economics of Comparable Worth. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1986.
2. Buchele, Robert
Jobs and Workers: A Labor Market Segmentation Perspective on the Work Experience of Younger Men
Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1976
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Behavior; Earnings; Job Analysis; Job Satisfaction; Schooling; Work Attitudes

This thesis utilizes a labor market segmentation framework to analyze the work experiences (attitudes, employment stability, earnings and occupational achievement) of a sample of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys Career Thresholds data. Jobs are classified by detailed Census industry and occupation, and the outcomes experienced by individuals are analyzed to determine: (1) the separate contribution, apart form workers' personal (human capital) characteristics, of job class in accounting for differences among workers in earnings, job satisfaction and employment behavior; (2) how workers' personal attributes interact with job characteristics in generating these outcomes; and (3) how personal characteristics influence individuals' job (occupational class) location.
Bibliography Citation
Buchele, Robert. Jobs and Workers: A Labor Market Segmentation Perspective on the Work Experience of Younger Men. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1976.
3. Buchele, Robert
Jobs and Workers: A Labor Market Segmentation Perspective on theWork Experience of Middle-Aged Men
Presented: Boston, MA, Secretary of Labor's Conference on the NLS of the Pre-Retirement Years, 1976
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Occupational Attainment; Wages, Men; Work Experience

By using a labor market segmentation perspective, the work experiences and earnings of middle-aged men are analyzed. The results show that substantially more favorable outcomes are consistently associated with jobs in higher complexity and autonomy occupation classes and with "core" industries. In addition, the influence of human capital variables and various measures of the worker's "circumstances of employment" on the outcomes being studied, varies according to the worker's occupation class.
Bibliography Citation
Buchele, Robert. "Jobs and Workers: A Labor Market Segmentation Perspective on theWork Experience of Middle-Aged Men." Presented: Boston, MA, Secretary of Labor's Conference on the NLS of the Pre-Retirement Years, 1976.
4. Buchele, Robert
Sex Discrimination and Labor Market Segmentation
In: Dynamics of Labour Market Segmentation. F. Wilkinson, ed. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1981
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Academic Press, Inc.
Keyword(s): Blue-Collar Jobs; Discrimination; Discrimination, Job; Discrimination, Sex; Earnings; Job Tenure; Schooling; White Collar Jobs; Work Experience

Sex discrimination in employment and earnings is analyzed from a labor market segmentation perspective. This provides a useful framework because it focuses clearly on the two forms which discrimination may take: job discrimination (unequal access to certain classes of jobs) and pay discrimination (unequal pay in similar kinds of jobs).
Bibliography Citation
Buchele, Robert. "Sex Discrimination and Labor Market Segmentation" In: Dynamics of Labour Market Segmentation. F. Wilkinson, ed. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1981
5. Buchele, Robert
Aldrich, Mark
How Much Difference Would Comparable Worth Make?
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 24,2 (March 1985): 222-233.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1985.tb00991.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Keyword(s): Comparable Worth; Earnings; Gender Differences; Human Capital Theory; Job Requirements

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Using data from both the NLS of Young Men and Young Women as well as the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, the authors propose a model of employment and earnings determination which specifies that workers' earnings are determined primarily by the requirements or characteristics of their job. The authors conclude that women are differentially rewarded for their job requirements and tenure irrespective of the sex composition of their job and that more than crowding or excess supply of women in women's jobs must be involved. The findings suggest that comparable worth, narrowly defined as equal returns to this study's measures of job requirements (e.g., GED, SVP), would reduce the earnings gap by about 63 percent. Requiring equal returns to job tenure would reduce the gap by another 35 percent. In conclusion, the paper discusses some qualifications to the study's findings as well as the implications for occupational segregation as a causal factor in the male-female earnings gap and the impact of comparable worth on the laws of supply and demand.
Bibliography Citation
Buchele, Robert and Mark Aldrich. "How Much Difference Would Comparable Worth Make?" Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 24,2 (March 1985): 222-233.
6. Buchele, Robert
Aldrich, Mark
Where to Look for Comparable Worth
In: Comparable Worth: Analyses and Evidence. MA Hill and MR Killingsworth, eds. Ithaca, NY: Industrial Relations Press, Cornell University, 1989
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keyword(s): Comparable Worth; Modeling; Wage Differentials; Wage Equations; Wage Models; Work Experience

This chapter provides a detailed analysis of efficiency wage models--an important class of labor market models of relatively recent vintage--and discusses their implications for the comparable worth debate. The authors argue that, in such models, the existence of sizable industry wage differentials unrelated to job attributes such as education or work experience may provide a justification for a comparable worth standard and that, to the extent that it enhances worker efficiency, adoption of comparable worth may have smaller effects on employment than have usually been contemplated. The authors add that the greatest impact of comparable worth might be in high-wage industries, where relatively few women are employed. If so, comparable worth might increase wage inequality among women even as it reduces wage disparities between men and women.
Bibliography Citation
Buchele, Robert and Mark Aldrich. "Where to Look for Comparable Worth" In: Comparable Worth: Analyses and Evidence. MA Hill and MR Killingsworth, eds. Ithaca, NY: Industrial Relations Press, Cornell University, 1989