Pharmacists' earnings: their level and distribution.

Background: From a methodological perspective, the central tendency and the spread of an earnings distribution are independent outcomes. Theoretically, they may be related to each other.

Objective: Explore the direction and magnitude of the effect of changes in the mean of pharmacists' wage-and-salary earnings on earnings inequality.

The life-cycle argument: age as a mediator of pharmacists' earnings.

Background: Age diversity poses challenges to pharmacy employers and managers. A life-cycle argument has been presented to explain pharmacists' age-related differences at work.

Objectives: Explore responses of pharmacists' wage-and-salary earnings in three age groups (younger than 40, 40-54 years, and 55 years plus) to labor input and human-capital variables.

Inequalities in the distribution of pharmacists' wage-and-salary earnings: indicators and their development.

Background: Disparities in wages and salaries can be viewed as the dispersion of a statistical distribution that responds to observed and unobserved characteristics, and reflects socioeconomic phenomena such as the interplay of supply and demand, availability of information, and efficiency of markets in their search for equilibrium.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the nature of inequality in the distribution of pharmacists' wage-and-salary earnings and establish the extent to which inequality primarily occurred because of variation between/among groups or within groups of pharmacists in several classifications of human-capital and job-related preference variables.

Methods: Data were collected through the use of a survey questionnaire mailed to registered pharmacists in South Florida, USA.

Labor supply functions of working male and female pharmacists: In search of the backward bend.

Background: Previous research has shown that U.S. pharmacists experience negative elasticities along a backward-bending labor supply function.

The gender earnings gap among pharmacists.

Background: A gender earnings gap exists across professions. Compared with men, women earn consistently lower income levels. The determinants of wages and salaries should be explored to assess whether a gender earnings gap exists in the pharmacy profession.

Graphic strategies for analyzing and interpreting curricular mapping data.

Objective: To describe curricular mapping strategies used in analyzing and interpreting curricular mapping data and present findings on how these strategies were used to facilitate curricular development.

Design: Nova Southeastern University's doctor of pharmacy curriculum was mapped to the college's educational outcomes. The mapping process included development of educational outcomes followed by analysis of course material and semi-structured interviews with course faculty members.