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Employment, fiscal Policy and Oligopsonistic Labour Market

Tamai, Toshiki - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 12 (2009) 3, pp. 321-337

This paper presents an investigation of the dynamic effects of fiscal policy in an inter-temporal optimisation model with an oligopsonistic labour market. In an oligopsonistic labour market, fiscal policy expands employment through a shift of labour demand and supply curves. Fiscal policy has a...

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Life on the Minimum Wage in Australia: An Empirical Investigation

Dockery, Alfred Michael; Seymour, Richard; Ong, Rachel - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 13 (2010) 1, pp. 1-26

From 2006 to 2009, Federal minimum wages in Australia were set by the Australian Fair Pay Commission. This paper uses … benefits for affected individuals, and hence the potential trade-offs faced in setting minimum wages if we accept that … increases in minimum wages reduce employment opportunities. …

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Women, Wages and Industrial Agreements

Whitehouse, Gillian; Frino, Betty - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 6 (2003) 4, pp. 579-596

This paper focuses on the gendered effects of the current combination of industrial agreements in Australia - both in the sense of the distribution of men and women across different types of agreements, and gender inequality within agreement types. We draw on Australian Bureau of Statistics data...

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The Irrelevance of Trade union Recognition? A Comparison of Two Matched Companies

Brown, William; Ryan, Paul - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 6 (2003) 3, pp. 383-408

Two UK business services companies are compared both to each other and to their common state-owned industry background in order to assess the implications of trade union recognition and changes in bargaining structure. Union recognition was abandoned by one company under the agenda of...

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Are We Understanding the Impact of Economic Conditions on Welfare Rolls?

Black, Dan; McKinnish, Terra - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 5 (2002) 4, pp. 489-505

In this paper, we argue that welfare participation is more sensitive to economic conditions than previously believed. Why? Prior research focused on short-term economic fluctuations and ignored differences between high- and low-skilled workers. As welfare reform is long-term (i.e., permanent) it...

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Strike Activity Under Enterprise Bargaining: Economics or Politics?

Hodgkinson, Ann - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 7 (2004) 4, pp. 439-457

Australia has moved rapidly from a centralised Award based wage determination system to decentralised enterprise bargaining. This move has been associated with a substantial drop in strike activity. The relationship between working days lost and a series of macroeconomic variables is tested for...

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Labour Market Responses to the Abolition of Compulsory Superannuation

Carter, Louise - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 4, pp. 351-364

This paper aims to compare the labour market effects of two alternative retirement income polices: the superannuation guarantee charge; and the higher income taxes that would be required to fund the greater pension expenditure that would be incurred if the superannuation guarantee charge was...

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Comment on Long-term unemployment in Australia

Leeves, Gareth - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 5 (2002) 2, pp. 199-202

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Further Evidence on Disaggregated Wage Curves: The Case of Spain

Sanroma, Esteban; Ramos, Raul - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 3, pp. 227-243

workers - have a higher elasticity of wages to local unemployment. These results indicate a greater facility of firms in these … (industry sector, gender, age, schooling, and occupation). The results show a wage curve for all employees with an elasticity of … segments to set wages as a function of the unemployment rate and they are supportive of efficiency wage theoretical models. …

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Comments on ‘The Five Economists’ Plan: the original idea and further developments’

Borland, Jeff - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 5 (2002) 2, pp. 239-242

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