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You?e Paid What You?e Worth : And Other Myths of the Modern Economy

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?his is the book to throw at your human resources director?ot literally, of course?hen any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how decisions on pay have been made...It is a closely argued, thoroughly researched treatise on how we got here and how pay could be both fairer and more effective as a reward.??tefan Stern, Financial World ? flat-out revelation of a book by one of the nation? top scholars of the labor market...required reading for anyone who cares about the future of work in America.??atthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America ?ake Rosenfeld pulls back the curtain on the multifaceted cultural, institutional, and market forces at play in wage-setting. This timely book illuminates the power dynamics and often arbitrary forces that have contributed to the egregious inequality in the U.S. labor market?nd then lays out a clear blueprint for progressive change.??hea Lee, President of the Economic Policy Institute Job performance and where you work play a role in determining pay, but judgments of productivity and value are 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. 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 their peers are doing. And workers are on the lookout for practices that seem unfair. Jake Rosenfeld shows us how these dynamics play out in real-world settings, drawing on cutting-edge economics and original survey data, with an eye for compelling stories and revealing details. You?e Paid What You?e Worth gets to the heart of that most basic of social questions: Who gets what and why?


Author: Jake Rosenfeld
Publisher: Belknap Press
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 067429548X
ISBN-13: 9780674295483

You?e Paid What You?e Worth : And Other Myths of the Modern Economy

$19.95
$18.14
Sale 9%
 
?his is the book to throw at your human resources director?ot literally, of course?hen any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how decisions on pay have been made...It is a closely argued, thoroughly researched treatise on how we got here and how pay could be both fairer and more effective as a reward.??tefan Stern, Financial World ? flat-out revelation of a book by one of the nation? top scholars of the labor market...required reading for anyone who cares about the future of work in America.??atthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America ?ake Rosenfeld pulls back the curtain on the multifaceted cultural, institutional, and market forces at play in wage-setting. This timely book illuminates the power dynamics and often arbitrary forces that have contributed to the egregious inequality in the U.S. labor market?nd then lays out a clear blueprint for progressive change.??hea Lee, President of the Economic Policy Institute Job performance and where you work play a role in determining pay, but judgments of productivity and value are 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. 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 their peers are doing. And workers are on the lookout for practices that seem unfair. Jake Rosenfeld shows us how these dynamics play out in real-world settings, drawing on cutting-edge economics and original survey data, with an eye for compelling stories and revealing details. You?e Paid What You?e Worth gets to the heart of that most basic of social questions: Who gets what and why?


Author: Jake Rosenfeld
Publisher: Belknap Press
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 067429548X
ISBN-13: 9780674295483
 

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