The gender-wage gap in leadership positions is even wider than in lower positions. Managerial wages are partly performance based and one possible reason for the pay gap could be that women are not successful managers. Indeed, research into the “romance of leadership” suggests that managers’ abilities are judged on the basis of their companies’ performance (Meindl, Ehrlich & Durkerich, 1985). Bu...

We examine the association between the presence of monitoring board committees (i.e., audit, nomination, and remuneration) and market valuation in South Africa using a sample of listed corporations. We find a significant positive connection between the presence of monitoring board committees and market valuation, but only in corporations that have independent monitoring board committees and/or ...

In the third of a series of articles examining ethical issues in primary care research, we argue that family doctors, when considering what they ought to do in relation to research, have a positive obligation to participate in research and that one means of discharging this obligation is to collaborate in research studies by aiding recruitment. We offer three arguments in support of this obliga...

The allocation of General practitioners deprivation payments has been a contentious issue since it was first proposed. This paper examines the method of allocation of such payments in Northern Ireland. A more equitable system would be based on enumeration districts, have a lower Jarman score and a closer relationship between Jarman score and remuneration. Unlike other parts of the UK these chan...

The principal-agent models may be employed to elucidate central problems in interaction between principals and agents in both policy implementation and public policy-making concerning performance and remuneration. One then hits upon the double principal-agent relationships that are typical of the policy cycle, from policy-making to policy implementation and back: 1) government as principal for ...

Small developing countries, with their limited resources and, probably more importantly, their inefficient use of those resources, often find themselves so overwhelmed by the demand to provide services of various kinds that little sustained attention is paid to the quality of what is provided. The sums allocated in successive annual national budgets for the respective service sectors are almost...

significant changes to education for AHWs and increased levels of responsibility in the clinical environment. Remuneration in the community sector is not progressing in line with governmentemployed health workers. ACCHS health workers have higher levels of clinical skills and responsibilities than our colleagues in state health. Service delivery in the two sectors is very different, with state ...

We examine the association between the presence of monitoring board committees (i.e., audit, nomination, and remuneration) and market valuation in South Africa using a sample of listed corporations. We find a significant positive connection between the presence of monitoring board committees and market valuation, but only in corporations that have independent monitoring board committees and/or ...

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is remarkable for moving inequality from the margins to mainstream debate through detailed analysis of longitudinal statistics and, for an economist, by advocating an interdisciplinary perspective and writing in a witty and accessible style. With reference to the post 1970 period, when wage increases are largely responsible for the increase i...

We examine the interaction in the market for physician services when the total budget for reimbursement is fixed. Physicians obtain points for the services they render. At the end of the period the budget is divided by the sum of all points submitted, which determines the price per point. We show that this retrospective payment system involves -- compared to a fee-for-service remuneration syste...