Product Description: Billions of people throughout the world are paid for their work. This book was written to explain why they earn what they earn and, in doing so, to help readers understand how they can earn more in both the short and long run. It describes wages, wage differences across groups, wage inequality, how organizations set pay and why, executive and "superstar" pay, the difference between pay and "total rewards" (including benefits, opportunities for growth, colleagues, and working conditions), compensation in nonprofits, and the differences between the cost of compensation to organizations and the value employees place on that compensation...read more

Product Description: This monograph began as a study of the consequences of labor force effects, in­ cluding unemployment, for the distribution of earnings. I began by developing a model of job search. But following my previous work on the distribution of earnings, the search theory took a different form from the standard literature...read more

Product Description: RSMeans Labor Rates for the Construction Industry 2012 provides a quick, convenient way to obtain 2012 union wage rates for every major metropolitan area in the United States and Canada. Wage rates listed are the actual negotiated union rates or a reliable estimate for each of the 46 construction trades...read more

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In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, the author works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota.

Why do contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance everywhere "inefficient"? Why do they feel that corporate executives deserve no less than their multimillion-dollar "compensation" packages and workers no more than their meager wages? Here is a lively and accessible debunking of the two elements that make economics the "science" of the rich: the definition of what is efficient and the theory of how wages are determined. The first is used to justify the cruelest policies, the second grand larceny. Filled with lively examples--from food riots in Indonesia to eminent domain in Connecticut and everyone from Adam Smith to Jeremy Bentham to Larry Summers--Economics for the Rest of Us shows how today's dominant economic theories evolved, how they explicitly favor the rich over the poor, and why they're not the only or best options. Written for anyone with an interest in understanding contemporary economic thinking--and why it is dead wrong--Economics for the Rest of Us offers a foundation for a fundamentally more just economic system.

The American Dream used to include a white picket fence, 2.2 kids, and a dog. In todayÕs frantic world, itÕs . . . well, letÕs be honestÑitÕs quite different. But what would happen if you did have the nerve to quit your white-collar job? Prioleau Alexander can tell you: He walked away from a lucrative career as an advertising executive, seeking a life Òlike that dude on Kung Fu.Ó Over the next year he worked minimum-wage jobs as a pizza deliveryman, ice cream scooper, construction worker, ER tech, fast food jockey, and even cowboy on a Montana dude ranch. In YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?, Prioleau explores life at minimum wage and proves unequivocally that the grass is not always greener on the other side.

Product Description: Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute has sold more than 250,000 copies because career professionals recommend it and it's better paid readers who applied the strategies, tell their friends. The 7th edition makes it easier than ever to put thousands of extra dollars into one's pocket because of the many key concepts that have been added to the "bible" of salary negotiations...read more

Product Description: This volume reviews the global and regional wage trends during the economic and financial crisis of 2008–09. Part I highlights the slowdown in the growth of monthly average wages as well as some short-term fluctuations in the wage share...read more

Product Description: In this tightly argued work William Coleman explores the macroeconomic implications of politically based restraints on competition in labour markets. Through a suite of compact models the author investigates the consequences of the labour force securing the best terms of sale for its labour by means of the electoral mechanism...read more

Product Description: Employment, Hours, and Earnings: States and Areas is a special edition of Bernan Press's Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices Productivity, and Other Labor Data. This edition brings together a wealth of employment data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and provides estimates on employment, hours, and earnings for each state and the District of Columbia as well as the nation's largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)...read more

Product Description: This book analyzes wage hierarchy in market and planning theory, and how these theories can be used as a basis for the comparison of wage structures in Western and Soviet-type systems. The author analyzes statistical data from ten countries in both systems at the beginning of the eighties, and attempts to account for wage dispersion by examining such factors as education and training, discrimination against women, and market structure, as well as the influence of systemic factors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Employment, Hours, and Earnings is a special edition of Bernan Press’s Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics. The fourth edition brings together a wealth of employment data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and provides estimates on employment, hours, and earnings for each state and employment data for the nation’s 75 largest metropolitan areas (MSAs)...read more

Product Description: Corporatism or Competition? is concerned with the importance of institutions in determining labor market outcomes. There has been a great deal of research in the past ten years comparing wage differences, wage movements and employment behavior in different countries, none of which has been brought together in an organized and coherent fashion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A special edition of the Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics, this reference brings together a wealth of employment data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and provides a detailed and timely picture on employment, hours, and earnings for each state, the District of Columbia, and the nation's 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)...read more

Product Description: Everyone has to negotiate their salary at least once a year - whether it's part of the dreaded annual appraisal process, or part of an even more intimidating interview process for a new job. This book guides readers through the entire process, from initial valuation of their services, to determining the appropriate negotiating strategy with the particular recruiter/manager in question, and securing the best possible outcome...read more

Product Description: This is the first study of Scottish price history to be published, and a major contribution to the economic and social history of early modern and pre-industrial Britain. Using the remarkable series of "fiars" prices for grains and other contemporary sources, Gibson and Smout focus, in particular, on the prices of grain, meal and animal products, and assess how Scots laborers could survive in an economy that could pay only very low money wages...read more

Product Description: You work hard every day and you know that your performance merits more money than you are currently making. But the rat race is making it next to impossible to ask for that raise you want. Job growth is slowing, salaries are tightening up, and you feel like you might miss your chance if you do not act soon do not feel alone...read more