CEO & Employee Pay Discrepancy: How the Government's Policies Have Encouraged the Gap

Authors

David R. Meals

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Abstract

This paper examines the role of the U.S. Government in the CEO versus worker pay gap, both in contributing to its creation and the ability to reverse it. To better understand this issue, this paper includes a survey of current U.S. and foreign CEO compensation practices, a survey of theories proposed to explain the divergence between U.S. and foreign CEO compensation, a review of the social and business impact of excessive CEO compensation, and identifies socioeconomic theories regarding the excessive CEO pay trend. This is followed by a review of the history of attempted solutions along with newly enacted and proposed future solutions to further inhibit the growth of excessive CEO pay.

Recommended Citation

David R. Meals, CEO & Employee Pay Discrepancy: How the Government's Policies Have Encouraged the Gap, 6 J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L. Iss. 2 (2013)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/jbel/vol6/iss2/5