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Avent-Holt, Dustin; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald – Social Forces, 2012
We examine the relational model of inequality using samples of employer-employee matched data from manufacturing plants in the United States and Japan. We argue that gender is a salient status characteristic in both the United States and Japan, but because of differences in gender politics, wage inequality will vary more across U.S. workplaces…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Diversity (Institutional), Manufacturing, Foreign Countries
Levine, David I.; Belman, Dale; Charness, Gary; Groshen, Erica L.; O'Shaughnessy, K. C. – 2002
Evidence from North American pay practices was used to examine the question of whether the "old employment contact," according to which employees promised to exchange hard work for job security, has truly been replaced by a "new employment contract" based more on market forces. The study analyzed data from the following…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contracts, Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship