The authors analyze Ireland's experience with equality legislation since the passage of the Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act of 1974 and the Employment Equality Act of 1977. After providing a detailed analysis of how the Acts function, they econometrically estimate the effects of equality...

Since 1988 Ontario has had the most comprehensive comparable-worth or "pay-equity" policy in North America, if not the world. Ontario's Pay Equity Act is proactive rather than merely complaints-based and covers nearly all employers in the private as well as public sectors. In this paper we...

In 1988 a comparable-worth pay policy was implemented in Ontario, Canada, with the passage of the Pay Equity Act. The Ontario policy is unique in the scope and nature of its involvement in pay determination: it is proactive rather than complaints-based and it covers employees in both the private...