You're paid what you're worth [electronic resource] : and other myths of the modern economy / Jake Rosenfeld.

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"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 me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenfeld, Jake, 1978- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Pay equity.
Equality.
Performance standards.
Wages and labor productivity.
Merit pay.
Online Access:
eBook Business Collection (EBSCOhost) - North America: 2021 (EBSCO)
EBSCO eBooks: 2021 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
You are paid what you are worth
Format: Electronic eBook
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.