The Time and Circumstances of Pay Changes

Guy Routh
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Guy Routh: University of Sussex

Chapter 3 in Occupation and Pay in Great Britain 1906–79, 1980, pp 133-180 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We have now reconstructed the national pay and occupational structure for various years between 1906 and 1978, but this tells us nothing of the functional relation between changes in numbers and changes in pay. A rise or fall in the numbers in any occupation may go along with a rise or fall in its relative pay, perhaps because their causal factors are not connected or, in traditional economic terms, because both the demand and supply schedules may have changed, thus changing the shape or position of the curves that depict them. We have a series of snapshots for each class and its principal occupations showing pay and employment in various years; but to interpret the changes (or failures to change) we need a moving picture of the years between in which we can glimpse in action the forces whose conflicts have determined the course of events.

Keywords: Wage Rate; Manual Earning; Manual Worker; Hourly Earning; Retail Price Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16364-9_4

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