Article: On the relationship between rank/occupational sorting and pay variation by sex: some notes on the question of marital status influence.

THE PROBLEM

In the pay equity literature, no subject has generated greater interest than the issue of sex-based differences in pay and what potentially leads to such differences (cf., Hammer, 1986, 1992; Milkovich & Newman, 1987; Treiman & Hartmann, 1981). Writers have commented on how these differences tend not to result from direct managerial decisions to pay women less than they pay men; rather, the variation is argued to be a more "indirect" consequence of "sorting" (or "segregation") effects. Sorting, in this case, is defined as a process of allocating persons into occupational classes or into ranks of variant defined value to the employer (cf., Halaby, 1979; ...

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