2024/04 | LEM Working Paper Series | ||||||||||||||||
Two neglected origins of inequality: hierarchical power and care work |
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Armanda Cetrulo, Dario Guarascio and Maria Enrica Virgillito |
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Keywords | |||||||||||||||||
Wage determination, social classes, labour-process, managerial functions, care jobs.
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J3, J5, M54
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Abstract | |||||||||||||||||
Are wages really a good proxy of the value of labour? Or,
alternatively, do they largely reflect socio-institutional embedded
practices of current societies according to which a manager deserves
to be paid more than a nurse? This paper studies the determinants of
wage remuneration and wage distribution focusing on two neglected
origins of inequality: hierarchical power and care-work. Our
contributions include, first the construction of a new synthetic
indicator able to capture and quantitatively assess the distribution
of power across occupations; second, the development of an indicator
able to fine grained account for care jobs; third, the econometric
estimation of the determinants of wage levels and wage distribution
contrasting our new proxies for occupational attributes of care and
power versus the benchmark Mincer equation and the routine task
index. Our results downplay the role of the accustomed routine task
index in determining the wage remuneration and prove the role of the
socioinstitutional embeddedness of wage determination, rooted on
hierarchical positions and largely discarding the role of essentiality
in the executed job activity.
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