Previous studies have indicated that discriminatory practices exist in the Information Technology profession. In this paper, we quantify the differences in the current hourly salaries of female software developers with their male counterparts using the human capital model based on economic theory. In addition to the gender factor, the human capital model includes other control variables that ma...

This paper replicates studies by Medoff and Abraham (1980, 1981) and Flabbi and Ichino (2001) using personnel data from the Dutch national aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It shows how a formal salary system, as is widely used by large firms, brings about that seniority-wage profiles are largely independent of controls for reported performance in crosssectional wage regressions even though supervi...

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...

Abstract. The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8.5 aims to “achieve equal pay for work of value” globally by 2030. This goal conflicts with a widespread and continuing practice paying skilled workers from higher-income economies working in lower-income settings more than their host worker counterparts. brief summarizes research that has found dual salaries undermine colleagues...

the beauty parlor industry is one of the fastest growing industries of bangladesh. the lifestyle of people of our country has changed rapidly over the past few years. realizing the importance of sound health and presentation, people are becoming more concerned about their health and beauty. thousands of beauty-care service providers or beauty parlors have sprung up all over the country in the l...

evaluating of staff’s performance and accessing to optimized performance in an organization will be possible by creating factors such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment. in this paper, data envelope analysis (dea) was used in order to evaluate staffs’ performance in khuzestan oxin steel company. also, a questionnaire was used in order to collect necessary data and information (cr...