Salary Differences BetweenMale and Female RegisteredNurses in the United States Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, the male-female salary gap has narrowed in many occupations.1 Yet pay inequality persists for certain occupations, including medicine and nursing. Studies have documented salary differences across clinical settings for diverse cohorts of physicians2,3 and higher salaries for male...

Using personnel records from a single firm, we analyze the kind of formal salary system used by most large firms. The system is highly centralized, covering salary levels, ranges, raises, and bonuses. Supervisors have little discretion over pay other than through subjective performance ratings. The firm holds relatively strictly to the salary rules, leading to observable constraints on pay for ...

Faculty salary equity is a hot political issue that may have severe legal, monetary, and human consequences. It is also an issue that often requires the use of sophisticated statistical techniques for the determination of inequity. The purpose of this paper is to identify the areas in which human judgment must be made in order to conduct a statistical analysis of salary equity and to provide so...

abstract introduction: neuro-occupation is one of the newest models in occupational therapy (ot). the nature of this model is based on the coexistence and dynamic interactions between brain’s neural system functions and engagement of an individual in occupations. neuro-occupation model holistically views the individual as a blending of neuroscience and occupation. the human brain is perceived t...

IMPORTANCE Limited evidence exists on salary differences between male and female academic physicians, largely owing to difficulty obtaining data on salary and factors influencing salary. Existing studies have been limited by reliance on survey-based approaches to measuring sex differences in earnings, lack of contemporary data, small sample sizes, or limited geographic representation. OBJECTI...

This paper studies factors that determine salary among professional baseball players in the Asian (Japan, Korea and Taiwan) and US. Empirical results show that US baseball players are the highest paid and those in Taiwan receive the lowest salary, with a large difference of 75 times. Experience, age, education and other variables, as well as population of teams’ home cities are influential. Whe...

We investigate the salary returns to the ability to play football with both feet. The majority of footballers are predominantly right footed. Using two data sets, a cross-section of footballers in the five main European leagues and a panel of players in the German Bundesliga, we find robust evidence of a substantial salary premium for two-footed ability, even after controlling for available pla...