By wage differentials, do you mean wage inequality in general or Compensating Wage Differentials for dangerous/undesirable work? For the Latter, Peter Dorman's "Markets and Mortality" is a good book, it appears to be written from a leftist-neoclassical perspective (although in a private email Dorman implied his theory is non-neoclassical...but then again you even have JE Stiglitz saying his stuff isn't NC).
For a shorter, empirically oriented article see Dorman and Hagstrom "Wage Compensation for Dangerous Work Revisited" Industrial and Labor Relations Review. (52)1: 116-35. 1998 If by "new education premium" and "new demand for human capital" you are referring to arguments attributing recent increases in wage inequality to increases in demand for more skilled workers, the best resource I know of is David Howell "Theory-Driven Facts and the Growth in Earnings Inequality" Review of Radical Political Economics" Vol. 31, No. 1, 54-86 (1999 I don't think any of this "rebuts" neoclassical theory. Being neoclassical isn't the same as thinking markets work perfectly. Howard Botwinick's book "Persistent Inequalities" is an empirical based critique of neoclassical labor market theory. A number of strong points, but I don't think much of his criticism of efficiency wage theory. > Hi, > > Can anyone suggest books about wages and "wage differentials". I am > curious about both introductory theoretical rebuttals of neoclassical > theory, as well as matter of fact explanations of the wages system > (critiques of "new education premium", "new demand for human capital", the > "middle class"). It's a plus if the book(s) put it all in the constant of > capitalist exploitation. > > The more books you suggest, the better (for me). > > Thanks, > Jon > > > > > --------------------------------- > Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great > rates starting at 1ยข/min.
