"Progress is usually defined by the growth rate of real per capita income. It is not a sufficient statistic but one that has to do. The extent to which the accumulation of ordinary human capital is responsible for progress is examined. There is, I contend, no place for a concept of...

Comparable worth proposals presume that the gender wage gap is a result of occupational segregation. The proposals argue that females are channeled into "women's jobs" and that overcrowding depresses women's wages below the "value" of the work performed. Comparable worth legislation proposes...