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Record W4410862155 · doi:10.1080/00346764.2025.2505840

The centrifugal nature of the labour market and justice

2025· article· en· W4410862155 on OpenAlexafffund
Peter Dietsch

Bibliographic record

VenueReview of Social Economy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Policy and Reform Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaGeorge Washington University
KeywordsEconomic JusticeEconomicsLabour economicsCentrifugal forceSociologyNeoclassical economicsMechanicsPhysics

Abstract

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This paper brings together insights from the literature on wage determination to explore the idea that the labour market contains a dynamic resulting in growing wage differentials between workers with different levels of qualifications. Call this dynamic the centrifugal nature of the labour market. It allows highly qualified workers to obtain cumulative wage premia over time. Few existing accounts of wage determination contain the conceptual resources to make sense of this phenomenon, and even these exceptions do not make it explicit. The paper then goes on to show that from the perspective of several prominent theories of distributive justice, wage differentials due to the centrifugal nature of the labour market will be considered unjust.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.027
Scholarly communication0.0040.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.321 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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