Your socio-economic background may influence your career choice and could result in a life-long wage gap. To address this inequality, companies need to re-think how jobs are valued
People with upper-class backgrounds earn more than people from lower-income backgrounds, even when they have similar levels of education and jobs of equal occupational prestige. Rotman professor András Tilcsik and Ray Tsai Fang, a professor at Boise State University (and a former Ph.D. student at Rotman) set out to learn why this pay gap persists.
[This article has been reprinted, with permission, from Rotman Management, the magazine of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management]