In 1919, 104 of the world's territories drove on the left and 104 on the right. Between 1919 and 1986, 34 of the keep-left territories changed to keep-right. No territories shifted in the opposite direction. This paper tests and largely sustains the counterintuitive hypothesis that the reason...

This illustrated article introduces the unique aspects of Icelandic road signage, and traces the history of the Icelandic system. Iceland’s low population density makes road navigation important and highway signage prominent. Though based on Danish and international models, Iceland’s road...

The increased number of casuals in the Australian workforce has generated considerable concern about a proliferation of inferior jobs in the labour market. Critics of casualisation have pointed to poor outcomes associated with casual work: job insecurity, lack of training and career paths,...

Does increasing the minimum wage lead to employment losses? For many years most economists thought that the answer to this was a straightforward 'yes'. However, research during the 1990s began to overturn this conventional wisdom and showed that increases in the minimum wage did not...

What is the connection between labour market deregulation and earnings inequality? Using Victoria as an example, this paper explores this question making use of a recent workplace survey. The results of this analysis show that a low wage sector emerged in Victoria during the late 1990s and that...

What is the connection between wage inequality and underemployment? This article explores the question in two ways. First it presents a theoretical account based on Marx's notion of the reserve army of labour, as developed in the work of Botwinick. Second, it presents the findings of a...