You're paid what you're worth : and other myths of the modern economy /
"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 confli...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.