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Studying Faculty Salary Equity: A Review of Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

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Over the past three decades, numerous studies have been published that examine salary equity among the nation’s college and university faculty. Many more studies have been conducted by individual campuses for internal use only. The vast majority of this research focuses on sex differences in faculty salaries, with a smaller amount of attention to racial/ ethnic group differences.

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Perna, L.W. (2003). Studying Faculty Salary Equity: A Review of Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. In: Smart, J.C. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0137-3_6

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