Should Employers Pay a Living Wage?
This paper critiques many of the leading popular and philosophical arguments purporting to show employers have a duty to pay a living wage. Some of these arguments fail on their own terms. Some are not really about a living wage. The best of them fail to show employers per se owe a living wage; at b...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2019
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 157, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-26 |
| Further subjects: | B
Job gentrification
B Poverty B Kantianism B Living Wage B Exploitation |
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| Summary: | This paper critiques many of the leading popular and philosophical arguments purporting to show employers have a duty to pay a living wage. Some of these arguments fail on their own terms. Some are not really about a living wage. The best of them fail to show employers per se owe a living wage; at best, they should that governments should supplement market incomes though a negative income tax or some other redistributive device. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-017-3724-y |