We establish the effects of salaries on worker performance by exploiting a natural experiment in which some workers in a particular occupation (football referees) switch from short-term contracts to salaried contracts. Worker performance improves among those who move onto salaried contracts relative to those who do not. The finding is robust to the introduction of worker fixed effects indicatin...

This article examines the earnings gap between male and female National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) head basketball coaches. Within women’s basketball, female head coaches earn base salaries 9% higher than males. Estimates from a human capital earnings model suggest that differences in job performance and institution-specific gender segregation explain this earnings gap. The base sal...

Afew weeks after leaving private practice in 1976 to join the ranks of insurance company medical directors, I was told by my boss, half seriously and half facetiousl~ that if before I left practice I had climbed on top of my office desk or a waiting room table shouting "I just can’t take this anymore," I would have been well on my way to being declared totally disabled from my occupation as a p...

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 ...

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...