Organizational mechanisms, and their contexts, leading to gender inequality among stockbrokers in two large brokerages are analyzed. Inequality is the result of gender differences in sales, as both firms use performancebased pay, paying entirely by commissions. This paper develops and tests whether performance-support bias, whereby women receive inferior sales support and sales assignments, cau...

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We consider a game between two capacity providers that compete for customers through a broker who works on commissions and sells to both loyal and non-loyal customers. The capacity providers compete by selecting commission margins and sales thresholds at which commissions on all sales increase. We show that in equilibrium, contracts require positive sales thresholds. The threshold requirement c...

Although in India drug addiction has existed on a more extensive scale than in any other country in the world with the exception perhaps of China little is known regarding the problem. Two commissions were appointed to go into the matter at the end of the last century; a Royal Commission was appointed in 1893 to enquire into the prevalence of the opium habit, and a commission to go into the que...