Equal Pay for Equal Work

Equal pay for work of equal value.

A JOB evaluation exercise is being carried out in 20 UK trusts this month. It involves only 60 nurses and yet the results will help determine how you are paid for years to come.

Equal Pay: The Hospital-Nursing Home Dilemma

Equal work for unequal pay: the gender reimbursement gap for healthcare providers in the United States.

INTRODUCTION Gender disparities in income continue to exist, and many studies have quantified the gap between male and female workers. These studies paint an incomplete picture of gender income disparity because of their reliance on notoriously inaccurate or incomplete surveys. We quantified gender reimbursement disparity between female and male healthcare providers using objective, non-self-re...

Equal Pay for all Prisoners / The Logic of Contrition

This report deals with two questions concerning the emergence of cooperative strategies in repeated games. The first part is concerned with the Perfect Folk Theorem and presents a vast class of equilibrium solutions based on Markovian strategies. Simple strategies, called equalizers, are introduced and discussed: if players adopt such strategies, the same payoff results for every opponent. The ...

Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay

This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eight of the gaps can be attributed to observable gender differences in executives’ and their firms’ characteristics. Further tests suggest that unobservable gend...