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An objective analysis of the implementation of comparable worth in a city government (San Jose, California), in a state government (Minnesota), and in an entire country (Australia). After explaining comparable worth in terms of economic theory, Killingsworth presents original econometric estimates of the effects of comparable worth on female-male relative wages and employment for the three locations. He develops and estimates two competing models: a conventional model, which relates individual worker's wages to worker's characteristics; and a comparable worth model, which relates wages of job classifications to job characteristics. Killingsworth concludes that conventional remedies to discrimination, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, are a more promising approach than comparable worth for eliminating labor market discrimination. Hunt discusses earlier studies, including Frances C. Hutner, Equal Pay for Comparable Worth (CH, Jul'86), and covers the implementation of comparable worth in Minnesota and Australia in greater depth than does Pay Equity by Robert T. Michael, Heidi I. Hartmann, and Brigid O'Farrell (CH, Mar'90). Highly recommended for upper-division and graduate collections. E. P. Hoffman Western Michigan University