Bonuses tend to increase wage differences between people within the same organization and team.

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Labour will point to issues like the social chapter and the national minimum wage to show the huge differences between the two parties.

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The wage gap seems largely due to differences in company type and partially due to remaining discrimination.

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It is implausible that wage disparities of hundreds or thousands of times reflect differences in effort.

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Professors Even and Macpherson are able to infer from these differences in treatment that the three-stage minimum wage increase led to a reduction in teenage employment of 6.9% (about 98, 000 jobs) in the nineteen states affected by all three stages.

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The researchers conclude this wage gap results from a combination of women choosing lower-paying fields, lingering gender discrimination and differences in salary negotiations.

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