I wonder what the pay gap would be like if you added in zeroes for all the unemployed men in this recession: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunb

I wonder what the pay gap would be like if you added in zeroes for all the unemployed men in this recession: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2009/05/number_of_worki.html http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/arch... Returning to the piece at hand, this quote really bugs me: "But one could also argue that pay differences among all individuals — as well as gaps between men and women — reflect differences in personality, preferences and principles as much as productivity. If this true, then policies like executive pay restrictions and higher marginal tax rates would not necessarily lower productive contributions." How did she go from "maybe those factors are as big as productivity" to "therefore there won't be any effect on productivity" in consecutive sentences? There are some interesting links in the article, but a ton of shoddy thinking in and around them.