Many societies report an increasingly divergent development of managers’ salaries compared to that of their workforce …. Moreover, there is often a lack in diversity amongst managerial boards. We investigate the role of managers’ gender and … incentive scheme on wages chosen for workers by conducting two experimental studies. The data reveal male managers respond in …

Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how … expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost … Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in stock prices, dividends, and returns on assets. Aggregate market value …

Wages grow and become more unequal as workers age. Economic theory focuses on worker investment in human capital …