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| Author: | Rubery, J. |
| Title: | Wages and the labour market |
| Journal: | British Journal of Industrial Relations
1997 : SEP, VOL. 35:3, p. 337-366 |
| Index terms: | INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PAY LABOUR MARKETS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In contrast to the tradition of social science, the argument made here is that wage structures are not to be explained by reference to an underlying economic or social rationale through which they contribute to the efficient or smooth functioning of an economy or society. Theories of wages have overstressed coherence and functionality and underplayed conflict and contradictions and the scope for discretionary, random or opportunistic decisions. Wage structures have been held partially in check in the past by institutional and social processes which linked wages across the labour market. |
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