Product Description: This book provides a theoretical framework to better understand how firms, economies and labor markets have evolved. This is done in a reader-friendly fashion, without complex mathematical arguments and proofs. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy shows how high wage economies help make firms and economies more productive and why high wage economies can be competitive even in an increasingly globalized environment...read more

Product Description: Why are workers with identical skills found in both "good" jobs and "bad" jobs? Why are workers who do similar jobs paid differently, contrary to standard competitive theory? Observable differences in workers doing the same job account for only 30 percent of wage variation...read more

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Product Description: Measuring performance is now standard procedure at all levels of business. But the natural extension -- linking performance to compensation for every employee -- is only beginning to be recognized as a valuable strategy for continued organizational success. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the advantages of incentive-based pay plans, and covers base pay, incentive plan design, non-cash rewards, recognition, and management incentive plans

Product Description: Will higher pay provide an incentive for better work? Can productivity be increased by changing the way workers are compensated? In response to the urgent need to improve productivity performance in American industry, leading economists examine alternative compensation schemes to assess their efficiency in raising productivity...read more