THE ROLE OF OCCUPATION IN THE DETERMINATION OF WAGES
| Autor: | J. B. Knight, J. de Beyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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| Zdroj: | Oxford Economic Papers. 41:595-618 |
| ISSN: | 1464-3812 0030-7653 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041916 |
| Popis: | LABOUR economists have not sufficiently recognised the role that occupation plays in the determination of wages. The usual approach is to explain wages in terms of the individual characteristics of workers and not of the characteristics of the work that they perform. We argue that both individual and job-related characteristics can be important and are likely to interact. Attempts to incorporate occupation into the analysis of wages have had little impact on the literature, perhaps because the classification of occupations in most data sets is inappropriate-normally being a murky blend of activity, status and skill-and because occupation has been introduced in ways-such as emphasising institutional effects of occupationally based bargaining groups or the notion that pay resides entirely in the job-which appear to be too much at odds with the competitive theoretical framework. We attempt to remedy this deficiency, putting forward a theory in which occupation is central and illustrating it with tailor-made data on skill-based occupational groups. |
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