PAY INEQUALITIES AND EQUAL VALUE CLAIMS

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

Pay Inequalities and Economic Performance Project report

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...

All inequality is not equal: children correct inequalities using resource value

Fairness concerns guide children's judgments about how to share resources with others. However, it is unclear from past research if children take extant inequalities or the value of resources involved in an inequality into account when sharing with others; these questions are the focus of the current studies. In all experiments, children saw an inequality between two recipients-one had two more...