This paper examines the effects of certain achievement-related personal characteristics on firm-specific variation in the salary attainment of white male managers of a utility firm. Special emphasis is given to assessing the degree to which the effects of personal attributes on current salary are transmitted via starting salary and/or via the rate of increase in salary. Characteristics found to...

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...

Below is a group of typical Nê w York State salaries, showing tion salary bills. The formula, which adds a percentage increase to last First, last year's increases (which are continued) were: 12*4 cent on salary between $2,000 and $4,000; in addition, TVz percent on the amount of increase under the proposed administrayear's percentage increase, works like this: percent on the first $2,000 of sa...