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• TITLE: A Model of Progressive Employee Compensation and Superstardom

  AUTHORS: Susan Hamlen, William Hamlen, Lawrence Southwick

  KEYWORDS: Progressive Salaries; Managers; Superstardom

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.3 No.3A, June 13, 2013

  ABSTRACT: This paper identifies the condition leading to a progressive salary situation wherein the elasticity of compensation with respect to ability is greater than unity, i.e., a small percentage advantage in ability results in a disproportional increase in compensation. This analysis also helps explain the “superstar phenomenon” made famous by Rosen (1981). Two assumptions are made. The first is that there is a generalized Cobb-Douglas type of production function wherein different hierarchies of employees of different abilities are viewed as distinct inputs. The second is that the distribution of ability is bell-shaped or approximately normally distributed, and can be approximated by a Poisson distribution. The model is applied using average outgoing salaries of MBA students from different universities compared to their average test scores.