Tag: Wage

Free Download Gernot Kohler, "The Global Wage System: A Study Of International Wage Differences"
English | ISBN: 1594540942 | 2004 | 85 pages | PDF | 4 MB
International wage differences are important at a time of globalisation; their social and economic consequences are vast, if not devastating. It is astonishing, therefore, that the origins, causes, and determinants of international wage differences are hardly ever discussed. According to a widely held half-truth, international wage differences reflect international productivity differences. This study challenges that belief and shows that international wage differences are due to a mixture of discrimination and various economic factors, just like wage differences between the sexes. The approach of this study is influenced by two strands of socio-economic analysis, namely, by world-system analysis and by the feminist. critique of gender wage differences. The central theme is discrimination versus productivity. Are international wage differences due to productivity differences or are they due to discrimination? The following issues are examined: Data on international wage differences; long-term changes of national wage rates; wage differences due to gender, race, ethnicity, culture, and region; the relationship between wages and GDP per capita; and more.

Free Download Iain Levison, "A Working Stiff’s Manifesto: Confessions of a Wage Slave"
English | 2002 | pages: 150 | ISBN: 1569472807 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Iain Levison can find work but not fulfillment. The frustration of dead-end, deadhead labor induces a kind of pink-slip payback syndrome as the realization sets in that his college degree will gain him little by way of psychic wages on the job. He is adrift in a workaday world where one human is as good as the next and all are expendable. Meaningless promises abound, "like when they were telling us [at commencement that] we were the future of the world, the bright shining blah blah blah."

Free Download Collective Bargaining and Wage Formation: Performance and Challenges By Hannu Piekkola, Kenneth Snellman (auth.), Hannu Piekkola Ph.D., Kenneth Snellman Ph.D. (eds.)
2005 | 186 Pages | ISBN: 3790815586 | PDF | 10 MB
This volume considers the development of the wage formation and wage bargaining institutions as a response to changes in the bargaining environment. These changes include a lower level of inflation and the growth in intraindustrial trade as firms have become more specialised. The response to these changes will depend on the current institutions and on the characteristics of the bargaining system. Generally there has been some move towards decentralisation; the question is what should be bargained centrally and which issues should be transferred to lower levels. Some of the contributions pay special attention to Nordic regimes using survey results gathered from the Finnish labour market partners.

Free Download The Rich Get Richer: American Wage, Wealth and Income Inequality (195 Pages)
by Thomas Hyclak
English | 2023 | ISBN: 981127729X | 196 pages | True PDF | 11.39 MB
Inequality of wages among workers and inequality of income and wealth among families and households has been rising steadily for the past half-century in the United States and other developed economies. However, the United States stands out for having the most unequal wage and income distributions to begin with and for experiencing the fastest rise in inequality over the following decades. While this has been a long-developing situation and the subject of academic interest for some time, it is only in the last decade or so that inequality has attracted considerable public attention and become a political issue. Inequality has also become a subject of renewed interest among economists, with a growing number of scholars engaged in the development of new databases and the analysis of the causes and effects of increased inequality.

Free Download Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty (Audiobook)
English | April 25, 2023 | ASIN: B0C2F395SN | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 35m | 223 MB
Author: Amanda Freeman, Lisa Dodson | Narrator: Patryce Williams
Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids.