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Chapter 10 offers a set of interrelated Policy Briefs - a wage policy suite. Integrating preceding chapters, each brief identifies a core wage policy issue and matched wellbeing issue. The briefs are pitched at multiple levels of policy-making, from SME to MNE, civic to civil society, multinational to multilateral; along global supply chains and all the way up to the UN itself. Inter-organisational. Together they call for a harmonised (a) paradigm shift on how wage is researched, from criterion-to-predictor and nominal-to-interval variable; (b) a full figure-ground reversal between efficiency vs. wellbeing; and (c) formal jobs vs. sustainable livelihoods; (d) combating economic slavery with all-of-supply-chain fair/living wage trademarks; that (e) raise minimum to living wage levels; then (f) cap** maximum wages against minimum living wage; and finally (g) instead of trying to shift sexist, racist and ageist mentalities, restructuring wages first, via fair quotas and living wages.

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Carr, S.C. (2023). Policy Suite. In: Wage and Well-being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19301-9_10

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