Empirical evidence presented in this paper, based on survey data for Canadian childcare workers in 1991, contradicts most stereotypes of the childcare labor market. Although childcare labor was low-wage, the authors find that the union impact on wages (15%) and fringe benefits was in line with...

Examines how the status and sex composition of occupations affected the wage gap between men and women workers in the United States in 1970. Review of alternative theories of discrimination; Data and statistical tests; Job status and sex composition results; Calculation of the earnings gap and...

Empirical evidence presented in this paper, based on survey data for Canadian childcare workers in 1991, contradicts most stereotypes of the childcare labor market. Although childcare labor was low-wage, the authors find that the union impact on wages (15%) and fringe benefits was in line with...

The authors estimate the joint decision for women with preschool children to engage in paid employment and to purchase market forms of child care. The results confirm those found in most U.S. studies, indicating that child care costs exert a significant negative effect on the labor supply of...

The evolution of pay equity in Ontario is traced through its various stages, along with the rationale for each stage and the complexity that results from each advancement. The current practice of pay equity is then analyzed with respect to various design and implementation features as well as...

The Ontario experience with respect to pay equity is evaluated based on a set of program-evaluation citeria. Such criteria are informative in their own right, but they also provide a systematic way of categorizing the issues that are involved in evaluating pay equity in general, with the Ontario...