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Employers' Estimates of Market Wages: Implications for Wage Discrimination in the U.S

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  • Marlene Kim

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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.

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  • Marlene Kim, 2000. "Employers' Estimates of Market Wages: Implications for Wage Discrimination in the U.S," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(2), pages 97-114.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:6:y:2000:i:2:p:97-114
    DOI: 10.1080/13545700050076124
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    Cited by:

    1. Kimberly Christensen, 2015. "He-cession? She-cession? The Gendered Impact of the Great Recession in the United States," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 47(3), pages 368-388, September.
    2. Deborah Figart, 2001. "Wage-setting under Fordism: The rise of job evaluation and the ideology of equal pay," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 405-425.
    3. Bruce Pietrykowski, 2017. "Revaluing Low-Wage Work," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 49(1), pages 5-29, March.

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