Employers’ Estimates of Market Wages: Implications for Wage Discrimination in the U.S.
研究了美国公共和私营雇主通过调查彼此工资来估算“市场工资”的过程，发现该过程因性别偏见导致女性工资被压低，基于华盛顿州和加利福尼亚州的政府工资设定研究。
In the U.S., public and private employers often survey each other’s wages in order to estimate the prevailing “market wage” for a job. I examine this process to see how it can lead to underpaying women, relying on a 1989 study of government wage-setting in the State of Washington and my own study of government wage-setting in the State of California. Gender biases can appear because numerous decisions are involved in each step of the process, and these decisions are often influenced by the gendered social and political environment, including the different levels of political organization of male and female employees.