You're paid what you're worth : and other myths of the modern economy /

"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...

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Main Author: Rosenfeld, Jake, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Questions about pay. What does determine our pay?
  • What do we think determines our pay?
  • Paying for performance? Employers against the free market
  • Mismeasuring performance and the pitfalls of paying for merit
  • The bosses' boss
  • Paying for the job? When good jobs go bad
  • Bad jobs can be good
  • Toward a fairer wage. Rethinking inequality
  • Toward a fairer wage.