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Format: 1 online resource (320 p.)

ISBN: 9780674250857

Content: A myth-busting book challenges the idea that we’re paid according to objective criteria and places power and social conflict at the heart of economic analysis.Your pay depends on your productivity and occupation. If you earn roughly the same as others in your job, with the precise level determined by your performance, then you’re paid market value. And who can question something as objective and impersonal as the market? That, at least, is how many of us tend to think. But according to Jake Rosenfeld, we need to think again.Job performance and occupational characteristics do play a role in determining pay, but judgments of productivity and value are also highly subjective. What makes a lawyer more valuable than a teacher? How do you measure the output of a police officer, a professor, or a reporter? Why, in the past few decades, did CEOs suddenly become hundreds of times more valuable than their employees? The answers lie not in objective criteria but in battles over interests and ideals. In this contest four dynamics are paramount: power, inertia, mimicry, and demands for equity. Power struggles legitimize pay for particular jobs, and organizational inertia makes that pay seem natural. Mimicry encourages employers to do what peers are doing. And workers are on the lookout for practices that seem unfair. Rosenfeld shows us how these dynamics play out in real-world settings, drawing on cutting-edge economics, original survey data, and a journalistic eye for compelling stories and revealing details.At a time when unions and bargaining power are declining and inequality is rising, You’re Paid What You’re Worth is a crucial resource for understanding that most basic of social questions: Who gets what and why?

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , part I: questions about pay -- , 1. What Does Determine Our Pay? -- , 2. What Do We Think Determines Our Pay? -- , part II: paying for performance? -- , 3. Employers Against the Free Market -- , 4. Mismeasuring Performance and the Pitfalls of Paying for Merit -- , 5. The Bosses’ Boss -- , part III: paying for the job? -- , 6. When Good Jobs Go Bad -- , 7. Bad Jobs Can Be Good -- , part IV: toward a fairer wage -- , 8. Rethinking Inequality -- , 9. Toward a Fairer Wage -- , Epilogue: What Foot Soldiers Deserve -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674250857

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674250857

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674250857

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674250857

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674250857

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Format: 1 online resource (385 Seiten)

ISBN: 9780674250857

Content: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part I: Questions About Pay -- 1. What Does Determine Our Pay? -- 2. What Do We Think Determines Our Pay? -- Part II: Paying for Performance? -- 3. Employers Against the Free Market -- 4. Mismeasuring Performance and the Pitfalls of Paying for Merit -- 5. The Bosses' Boss -- Part III: Paying for the Job? -- 6. When Good Jobs Go Bad -- 7. Bad Jobs Can Be Good -- Part IV: Toward a Fairer Wage -- 8. Rethinking Inequality -- 9. Toward a Fairer Wage -- Epilogue: What Foot Soldiers Deserve -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674916593

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rosenfeld, Jake, 1978 - You're paid what you're worth Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780674916593

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

Keywords: USA ; Lohnquote ; Lohnniveau ; Lohnsystem

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (364 Seiten) : , Diagramme.

ISBN: 978-0-674-25085-7 , 978-0-674-25083-3

Content: Part I. Questions about pay: What does determine our pay? -- What do we think determines our pay? -- Part II. Paying for performance?: Employers against the free market -- Mismeasuring performance and the pitfalls of paying for merit -- The bosses' boss -- Part III. Paying for the job?: When good jobs go bad -- Bad jobs can be good -- Part IV. Toward a fairer wage: Rethinking inequality -- Toward a fairer wage

Content: "Setting wages isn't an exact science, but we like to think that our workplace performance provides an objective basis for pay. You're Paid What You're Worth offers a bold theory to the contrary, arguing that pay is decided in contests over interests and ideals-that social conflicts, not economic metrics, determine who gets how much."

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-674-91659-3

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

Keywords: Lohnniveau ; Lohnsystem