Inequality of Pay [electronic resource].
Brown, Henry Phelps.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
1979.
Why should anyone earn ten times more than another? The economists answer relies mainly on supply and demand in the labour market, but the sociologist finds more significance in the differentiation of the labour force by class, status and power. This book examines the evidence.
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Cover Page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. THE PROBLEM; 1.1. The growth of interest in the inequality of pay; 1.2. The economist's approach to pay determination; 1.3. The sociologist's approach to pay determination; 1.4. The practical issue; 1.5. The plan of this work; 2. A SURVEY OF THE PAY STRUCTURE BY OCCUPATION; 2.1. Grouping by occupation; 2.2. The comparability of figures of pay by occupation; 2.3. A conspectus of the pay structure by occupation in Western countries
2.4. The pay structure by occupation in the Soviet-type economies2.5. Material and moral incentives in China and Cuba; 2.6. Egalitarianism in Israel; 2.7. Yugoslavia: a special case; 2.8. The relative pay of particular occupations; 2.9. Review and discussion; 3. THE COURSE OF CHANGE IN THE PAY STRUCTURE; 3.1. Changes in the differential for manual skill; 3.2. Changes in the relations between the pay for whitecollar and for manual occupations; 3.3. Changes in the relative pay of occupations linked with particular industries; 3.4. The influence of trade unions on occupational differentials
3.5. Review and discussion4. PAY STRUCTURE AND STATUS; 4.1. The ordering of occupations by average earnings; 4.2. The ordering of occupations by status; 4.3. Pay differentials and the scale of status; 4.4. The nature of status; 4.5. Station in life as a basis of assigned income; 4.6. Is status prior to pay?; 4.7. Evidence for status moulding pay in modern societies; 4.8. The influence of custom; 4.9. Divergences between the rank orders of status and pay; 4.9.1. Instances of pay and status offsetting one another; 4.9.2. Stratification by status differing from ranking by pay
4.10. Review and discussion5. DISCRIMINATION; 5.1. Forms of discrimination; 5.2. Discrimination against women; 5.2.1. Discrimination against women before the market; 5.2.2. Discrimination against women within the market; 5.3. Discrimination against minorities; 5.3.1. Discrimination against blacks before the market; 5.3.2. Discrimination against blacks within the market; 5.4. The effects of raising minimum wages, as a test for the presence of discrimination; 5.5. Review and discussion; 6. SOCIAL CLASS AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY; 6.1. The assignment of occupations to social classes
6.2. Intergenerational mobility between occupations6.3. Changes in intergenerational mobility over time; 6.4. The extent of intergenerational movement into and out of the top grade; 6.5. Review and discussion; 7. SOCIAL CLASS, MENTAL ABILITY, AND EDUCATION; 7.1. The association between occupation and I.Q.; 7.2. Evidence for the genetic determination of I.Q. potential; 7.3. The effects of differences between classes in the upbringing of children on the development of I.Q.; 7.4. The relation between parents' class and their children's I.Q.; 7.5. Class differences in the use made of education
7.6. Class differences in extent of education
Why should anyone earn ten times more than another? The economists answer relies mainly on supply and demand in the labour market, but the sociologist finds more significance in the differentiation of the labour force by class, status and power. This book examines the evidence.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Income distribution.
Wages.
Business & Economics
Labor & Workers' Economics