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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861085
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Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomesand the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognisedthat they have significant gender effects. To the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861194
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages inRomania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal … access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861423
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129090
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Does it Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited
Lee, Jungmin - 2011
Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and … strong trend of changing gender composition of household-representative respondents toward more females. Second, we estimate … the impact of the changing gender composition on Blau and Kahn's decomposition. We find that a non-ignorable portion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129914
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Remittances and Gender : Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130455
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Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction
Grund, Christian - 2011
We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with respect to sex and occupational status. Making use of a German representative sample of employees, we find that employees, who move to a firm with a works council, report...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130463
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The Gender Reservation Wage Gap : Evidence Form British Panel Data
Brown, Sarah - 2011
Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap. The presence of children, particularly pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130787
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Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor : Evidence from Danish Couples
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2011
If income pooling indicates primary earners' willingness to trade part of their income with spouses who earn less and work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131424
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis
Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131425