<DIV>Despite the economic boom of the 1990s, the gap between the wealthy and the poor in the United States is growing larger. While ample evidence exists to validate perceived trends in wage, income, and overall wealth disparity, there is little agreement on the causes of such inequality and what...</div>

This paper provides a method for linearly combining skill classes so that the number of classes required to describe a skill distribution is minimized. The principal analytical device is that of distinguishing between skill classes and the characteristics of persons in a class. The distinction...

An important and emerging public policy consideration… generally called equal pay for comparable worth…has received great attention from those who influence or report public policy initiatives. The comparable worth movement is directed at pay equity issues, primarily between men and women....