Examines the influence of child-related reductions in past hours worked on current wage rate of married women with children. The study reveals that differences in "intensity" of prior work experience account for half of the sex-related wage gap. (TE)

Examines the relative pay of women in the academic labor market between 1965 and 1985, analyzing national survey data, information from institutions, and published research. Although women's relative pay has improved since the late 1960s, women's salaries still fall short of men's salaries. Sex discrimination seems to have had little effect on…

Describes the use of regression analysis in eliminating sex discrimination in a university's salary structure and examines regression models usually accepted by courts. Estimates salary regressions for a large, midwestern university for 1983-84 in a simulating exercise exploring alternative elimination methods. Includes 23 references and 11 court…

In assessing sex-discrimination suit damages, debate rages over the type and number of variables included in a single-equation model of the salary-determination process. This article considers single- and multiple-equation models, providing 36 different damage calculations. For University of Minnesota data, equalization cost hinges on the…

Using data from a class action suit at the University of Minnesota, this paper shows the different costs arising from paying women a percentage increase on their actual salaries, versus paying them predicted salaries as if they were men. The political consequences of enacting these different equalization methods (without additional funding) are…

This paper compares relative earnings by sex among university faculty members as estimated from both cross-section and longitudinal data samples. Results indicate substantial differences in estimated male-female salary ratios. (TE)

The effects of sex, race, experience, publications, and other variables on salaries were analyzed for all faculty and for a smaller subsample at a large public university. Sex discrimination accounted for 17 percent of the subsample's and 41 percent of all faculty's differences in males' and females' salaries. (RW)

Examines racial and gender wage differences for rural workers, using wage equations derived from G.S. Becker's human capital model. With the rural focus, American Indian males and black females experience the weakest wage returns to education within their respective genders. Discrimination seems more prevalent in the rural female labor market,…

Examines earnings differentials between male and female teachers, using data from the 1987 Schools and Staffing Survey by the U.S. Department of Education. The estimated cost of being a female teacher is 5% in annual contract salary. In the female-dominated teaching profession, despite regulated pay scales and other structures to ensure pay…