This paper reports estimates of the causal effects of a 50 percent increase in the salary of headmasters of high schools in Israel. The results suggest that the program led to significant improvements in twelfth-grade students’ academic achievements. However, the effect was relatively modest, comprising increases of about 5–10 percent in the school mean matriculation rate, average score and num...

HUDSON, Oct. 2 — The Civil Service Employees Association has urged the salary committee of the Columbia County board of supervisors to consider a general salary adjustment for county employees and a revision of the county's present classification and salary plan. The two-step proposal was made j but^a few'Ynstancesi at a meeting of the salary com$2,000 of salary or fraction thereof 3. Five per ...

In a Shapley-Shubik assignment problem with a supermodular output matrix, we consider games in which each firm makes a take-it-orleave-it salary offer to one applicant, and a match is made only when the offer is accepted by her. We consider both one-shot and multistage games. In either game, we show that there can be many equilibrium salary vectors which are higher or lower than the minimum com...

UNLABELLED LATEST DATA: This Issue Brief examines the level of participation by workers in public- and private-sector employment-based pension or retirement plans, based on the U.S. Census Bureau's March 2011 Current Population Survey (CPS), the most recent data currently available (for year-end 2010). SPONSORSHIP RATE: Among all working-age (21-64) wage and salary employees, 54.2 percent worke...