Systematic bias in job evaluation and market wages: Implications for the comparable worth debate.

Evaluated the consequences of systematic measurement errors in job evaluation and in wage distributions used as a criterion in the empirical validation of job evaluation. The way reverse regression combined with conventional regression could be used to identify systematic errors under a restrictive set of assumptions was also demonstrated. It was found that bias against female key or benchmark job wages had the generally hypothesized negative impact on predictions for female non-key job wages. However, systematic evaluation bias of female jobs does not necessarily serve to the wage disadvantage of all female jobs. (17 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)