Titlebook: Industries, Firms, and Jobs; Sociological and Eco George Farkas,Paula England Book 1988 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988 capit

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Structural Effects on Wageswages. We wish to understand how structural characteristics of firms and industries affect these variables, and to use this understanding to explain recent empirical findings by structuralist sociologists.

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Market Concentration and Structural Power as Sources of Industrial Productivitylue is determined by the power of sellers in product markets. The degree of market concentration for a product, the structural power of producers (i.e., industry) in the larger economy, and the concentration of consumers will all effect the price for which a product can be sold.

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Work Structures and Marketscterize the relations among economic actors. Work structures describe the ways in which labor is divided, tasks allocated, and authority distributed; they point to reasons’ why doctors’ work is different from teachers’ and why executives are able, with wide degrees of freedom, to hire and fire their employees.

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Schooling and Capitalismincreasing access to education and training programs. This belief constitutes the essence of an implied social contract between the economic and educational institutions in American society. The experience of the past decades has shown, however, that these promised payoffs to schooling are neither guaranteed, homogeneous, nor universal.

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The Sociological and Economic Approaches to Labor Market Analysisicroeconomics the stance of “methodological individualism” (see Blaug, 1980:49–52) that attempts to ground all explanations in the motives and behaviors of individuals, but they differ in emphasizing social structural constraints and in avoiding the functionalist arguments now common in neoclassical work.