extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards … perspective. We also examine that certain parts of managers seem to have more power to influence their compensation than others …. Inequality in managers' compensation decreased during the crisis. …

Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to … employees in higher positions of firm hierarchies with children. Gender pay gaps are much more pronounced for bonus payments …

This paper investigates whether non-base compensation contributes to the gender pay gap. In wage decompositions, we … managers, the contribution of bonuses to the mean gap more than doubles and is steadily rising as one moves up the wage … distribution. Our findings suggest that gender differences in bonuses are an important contributor to the gender pay gap …

of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to differentiate between different reasons for …