Are Workers Overpaid By Big Firms?

Walter Oi

Australian Journal of Management, 1988, vol. 13, issue 2, 203-221

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: WAGES; FIRM SIZE; CONDITIONS; LABOUR MARKET REGULATION; U.S.A. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1177/031289628801300205

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