0 an amount of difference between things that are compared:
a price differential
The pay differential between employees and management is too great.
1 a differential gear specialized
2 based on a difference:
We have a differential salary structure based on employees' experience.
3 the difference between two amounts:
4 a difference in pay between different industries or between groups of employees within an organization:
5 a difference in an amount, for example, a difference in price between the same product sold in different areas:
6 an extra charge added to the price of shares when they are sold in a quantity that is less than the usual quantity:
7 treating different groups of people or things differently:
The WTO recognizes the need for differential treatment for developing countries.
One can restrict of course to the unit bundle, that is consider normalized integrable quadratic differentials.
A similar analysis is carried out for real regional wage differentials, though with more difficulty because of measurement errors in price differences.
Moreover, they are consistent with evidence of wage differentials elsewhere.
What is remarkable, however, is that these differentials are not greater.
Also, all potential effects of fertility differentials between migrants and members of the incumbent population become immaterial.
By contrast, many employers today prefer hybrid plans, because they smooth compensation differentials by age and soften the incentives for early retirement.
In the early years, there was little credit arbitrage between different bond markets, and swaps were used to take advantage of the interest-rate differentials.
The slight increase in the capital stock induces a rise of wage differentials.