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Workplace Compensation Practices and the Rise in Benefit Inequality

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In this article, the authors explain why inequality in fringe benefits has grown faster than wage inequality over the past four decades, and they depart from previous income inequality research by studying benef...
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This article aims to explain why inequality in fringe benefits has grown faster than wage inequality over the past four decades. We depart from previous income inequality research by studying benef...

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The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States

TL;DR: In this article, a new book about the divided welfare state and the battle over public and private social benefits in the United States to read is presented. But reading is not only for those who have obligation to read.
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The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the Swedish and British Plowshares Movements and conclude that the British movement found an internal structure that enhanced participation, while the Swedish model collapsed due to internal conflicts.
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Corona Crisis and Inequality: Why Management Research Needs a Societal Turn

TL;DR: This work discusses organizational practices—corporate social responsibility, work design, recruitment and selection, and compensation management—that can contribute to the normalization, reinforcement, and reduction of economic inequalities in society.
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The big squeeze.

Kim Kiser
- 01 Feb 2004 - 
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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What Do Unions Do

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Protecting soldiers and mothers : the political origins of social policy in the United States

TL;DR: Theda Skocpol et al. as discussed by the authors show that the United States nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than 40 states enacted social spending, labour regulations, and health education programmes to assist American mothers and children.
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The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence

TL;DR: An assessment of a rapidly growing body of economic research on financial literacy and thoughts on what remains to be learned if researchers are to better inform theoretical and empirical models as well as public policy are offered.
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The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment

TL;DR: In this paper, the fair wage-effort hypothesis is introduced, which states that workers proportionately withdraw effort as their actual wage falls short of their fair wage, and that such behavior causes unemployment.