TY - BOOK AU - Rosenfeld,Jake TI - You're paid what you're worth: and other myths of the modern economy SN - 9780674916593 AV - HD6061 .R67 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Pay equity KW - Equality KW - Performance standards KW - Wages and labor productivity KW - Merit pay KW - local KW - Print books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Questions about pay: What does determine our pay? -- What do we think determines our pay? -- Part II. Paying for performance?: Employers against the free market -- Mismeasuring performance and the pitfalls of paying for merit -- The bosses' boss -- Part III. Paying for the job?: When good jobs go bad -- Bad jobs can be good -- Part IV. Toward a fairer wage: Rethinking inequality -- Toward a fairer wage N2 - "Setting wages isn't an exact science, but we like to think that our workplace performance provides an objective basis for pay. You're Paid What You're Worth offers a bold theory to the contrary, arguing that pay is decided in contests over interests and ideals-that social conflicts, not economic metrics, determine who gets how much"-- ER -