impact on earnings. There is a large gender wage gap: women (who make up 8.8% of our sample) earned average salaries of $168 … heterogeneity. In contrast to executives, the salaries of non-executive board members do not display a significant gender wage gap …

on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to …

This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance … is determined in a more competitive fashion than the other wage components, one would expect, in principle, to find a low …

Future wage payments drive a wedge between total firm output and the output share received by the firm’s owners, thus … this perspective is a broad-based option plan. Broad-based option pay minimizes the firm’s expected future wage payments in … precisely those states of nature where, e.g., a high fixed wage would lead the firm’s owners to inefficiently exit. …

paying higher wages to enjoy non-pecuniary private benefits such as lower effort wage bargaining and improved social …

-unionized workplaces. The data distinguish workers who are covered by incremental wage scales with automatic progression by seniority. For … union workers with seniority scales, the union wage differential increases with seniority. This is not the case for union …