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Title: How Much Difference Would Comparable Worth Make?
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1. 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.
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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.