Are Workers Overpaid By Big Firms?
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Australian Journal of Management
- Vol. 13 (2) , 203-221
- https://doi.org/10.1177/031289628801300205
Abstract
What is pay? Under what conditions might overpayment be said to occur? The author develops a theory of wages. He explores reasons for firm size differentials. He examines post-war developments in the U.S. labour market to attempt to answer the question posed in the paper's title.Keywords
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