Implementing Comparable Worth: A Survey of Recent Job Evaluation Studies
综述了20世纪80年代美国州级可比价值政策实施情况，基于四个州的研究重新评估其对男女薪酬差距的影响，发现此前研究低估了政策效果。
During the 1980's, equal pay for comparable worth has emerged as a major legislative issue, especially at the state and local level. In the wake of increasing implementation of comparable worth in the public sector, efforts have been made to estimate the probable effect of nationwide implementation of comparable worth-type legislation on the earnings gap between women and men (see, for example, George Johnson and Gary Solon, 1984). These analyses have generally concluded that a comprehensive comparable worth policy would have very little effect on the sex-based earnings gap. This paper offers alternative estimates of the effect of comparable worth on the male-female earnings gap, based upon examination of four statelevel comparable worth studies (Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Washington).