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Studies on globalisation suggest that a factor in the growth of nonstandard employment in developed economies has been the growing capacity of multinational corporations to arbitrage wage differentials across countries. This analysis applies in particular to industries subject to direct import...
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In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate of return to that private investment. While the literature is replete with studies that estimate the rate of return using regression methods where the estimated return is...
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 13 August 1981.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Talks between the Fraser government and the ACTU on wage moderation seem headed towards the rocks when concessions sought by the ACTU on tax, health charges...
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Since the 1970s Australia has been one of the few countries that has progressively advanced the concept of gender pay … increases in award-based wages for certain industries dominated by women workers. However, the capacity of state tribunals to …
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equal value applied throughout Australia when award wage rates were decided by industrial tribunals. Nevertheless, the … Australia can be seen by the proportion of female full-time 'ordinary time earnings', that is earnings that exclude overtime …, relative to male earnings: in the period between 1981 and 2003 female earnings in Australia hovered at about 80 to 85 per cent …
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Australia. It exploits a natural experiment by which some people gained entitlement to a price reduction through the … significance for women (p < 0.07). No evidence is found to suggest that the public sector has an equalising effect on the wages of …
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Australia and the UK are both prominent economies in the international arena and share a strong trade and investment …
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trialled over the past five years in the United Kingdom and Australia. The primary purpose is to examine Credit Guarantee …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate electronic health record (EHR) initiatives at the national/external level. Governments are investing large amounts of money in national EHR systems. These systems are socially and politically complex and a variety of stakeholders (e.g. at the...
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, broadly, also identifiable in Australia. The Australian experience also largely confirms in relation to inflation … Australia, inflation continued at a high rate even after interest in inflation-accounting ceased. A counter hypothesis is … in inflation-accounting standards were more diverse than assumed by Nobes. Complicating UK-Australia comparisons are …
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