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References for Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap
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Further reading
- CONSAD Research Corporation An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages between Men and Women Final report prepared for US Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, 2009.
- Jain, H., Sloane, P., Horwitz, F. Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison. Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2003.
- Polachek, S. W. "A human capital account of the gender wage gap" In: Grusky, D. B., Kricheli-Katz, T. (eds). The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.
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Key references
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Polachek, S. W. "A human capital
account of the gender wage gap" In: Grusky, D. B., Kricheli-Katz, T. (eds). The New Gilded Age:
The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Key reference: [1]
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Polachek, S. W. "Occupational
self-selection: A human capital approach to sex differences in
occupational structure" Review of Economics
and Statistics 63:1 (1981): 60–69. Key reference: [2]
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Polachek, S. W. "Differences in
expected post-school investment as a determinant of market wage
differentials" International
Economic Review 16:2 (1975): 451–470. Key reference: [3]
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Bertrand, M., Mullainathan, S. "Are Emily and Greg
more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A field experiment on
labor market discrimination" The American
Economic Review 94:4 (2004): 991–1013. Key reference: [4]
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Booth, A., Leigh, A. "Do employers
discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated
occupations" Economics
Letters 107:2 (2010): 236–238. Key reference: [5]
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Goldin, C., Rouse, C. "Orchestrating
impartiality: The impact of ‘blind’ auditions on female
musicians" American Economic
Review 90:4 (2000): 715–741. Key reference: [6]
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Myers, C. "A cure for
discrimination? Affirmative action and the case of California’s
Proposition 209" Industrial and
Labor Relations Review 60:3 (2007): 379–396. Key reference: [7]
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Jain, H., Sloane, P., Horwitz, F. Employment Equity
and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison. Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. Key reference: [8]
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Cymrot, D. "Does competition
lessen discrimination? Some evidence" Journal of Human
Resources 20:4 (1985): 605–612. Key reference: [9]
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Polachek, S. W. "A human capital
account of the gender wage gap" In: Grusky, D. B., Kricheli-Katz, T. (eds). The New Gilded Age:
The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.
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Additional References
- Beller, A. "The impact of equal employment opportunity laws on the male–female earnings differential" In: Lloyd, C., Andrews, E., Gilroy, C. (eds). Women in the Labor Market. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
- Bravo, D., Sanhueza, C., Urzúa, S. An Experimental Study of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class and Neighborhood in Chile Inter-American Development Bank Latin American Research Network Research Network Working Paper, 2008.
- French, E., Strachan, G. "Evaluating equal employment opportunity and its impact on the increased participation of men and women in the transport industry" Transportation Research: Part A: Policy and Practice 43:1 (2009): 78–89.
- Hegewisch, A., Williams, C., Harbin, V. The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation, 2012-04.
- Joshi, P., Waldfogel, J. "The wages of motherhood: Better or worse" Cambridge Journal of Economics 23:5 (1999): 543–564.
- Moreno, M., Ñopo, H., Saavedra, J., Torero, M. Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima IZA Discussion Paper, 2004.
- Polachek, S. W. "Potential biases in measuring male–female discrimination" Journal of Human Resources 10:2 (1975): 205–229.
- Rosholm, M., Smith, N. "The Danish gender wage gap in the 1980s: A panel data study" Oxford Economic Papers 48:2 (1996): 254–279.
- Smith, J., Welch, F. "Affirmative action and labor markets" Journal of Labor Economics 2:2 (1984): 269–301.