This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate differences in employment outcomes for academic scientists by gender. A decomposition of estimated salary differences shows that over time, gender salary differences can partly be explained by differences in observable characteristics for faculty at the assistant and associate ranks. Substantial gender salary differences f...

This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate differences in employment outcomes for academic scientists by gender. A decomposition of estimated salary differences shows that over time, gender salary differences can partly be explained by differences in observable characteristics for faculty at the assistant and associate ranks. Substantial gender salary differences f...

Combining salary data for permanent non-emeritus faculty at seven departments of political science within the University of California system with lifetime citation counts and other individual-level data from the Masuoka, Grofman, and Feld (2007a) study of faculty at Ph.D.-granting political science departments in the United States, I analyze determinants of faculty salaries. For the full data ...

This paper discusses the impact of compensation schemes on housing agent performance. This study treats housing agents as subjects and distributed 867 questionnaires by mail. A total of 776 responses were retrieved, of which 510 were effective samples for a valid return rate of 66.5%. The feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) method was used for estimation. According to the empirical result...

In this paper, we are interested in the informational value of Major League Baseball (MLB) managerial compensation on a team’s performance. Using data on manager’s contracts, team performance, and team and manager characteristics, first, we determine the variables that influence a manager's salary. Then, we use a forecasting-type analysis to study the determinants of a manager’s performance, me...

This paper analyses the labour market transitions of unemployed individuals. We are particularly interested in why some individuals become self-employed instead of wage or salary earners upon returning to employment. Using Finnish microdata and a multinomial logit model we find that when we compare unemployed individuals ́ probability of moving into a wage or salary work with the probability of ...