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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w7937 |
来源ID | Working Paper 7937 |
Does Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market? | |
Michael Baker; Nicole M. Fortin | |
发表日期 | 2000-10-01 |
出版年 | 2000 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We investigate the effect of pro-active comparable worth legislation covering both the public and private sectors on wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian province of Ontario in the early 1990s. We document substantial lapses in compliance and problems with the implementation of the law among smaller firms where the majority of men and women work. This evidence provides important lessons of the obstacles to extending pay equity to the private sector of a decentralized labor market. When we focus on those sectors of the labor market where compliance was relatively strict, our results suggest that any positive effects on the wages of women in female jobs were very modest. Our most consistently estimated effects of the law on wages are negative: slower wage growth for women in male jobs and for men in female jobs. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Compensation |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w7937 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/565523 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael Baker,Nicole M. Fortin. Does Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market?. 2000. |
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