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De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele; Woolston, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

positive effect on monthly wages of about 80 Euros (115 USD) or 6% over the average. …

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

. Overall, the paper illustrates some of the on-going risks for gender equity under current wage bargaining arrangements. …

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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 …

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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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Imputing income using occupational attainment

Miller, Paul; Lee, Yew Liang - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 5 (2002) 3, pp. 335-350

This paper illustrates the potential problems associated with the use of average occupational incomes when the unit of observation is the individual. It does this through an examination of the effects of drinking and smoking on income. The adequacy of the use of the mean income of the occupation...

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Comment on International Shocks and the Role of Domestic Policy in Australia

Summers, Peter M. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 5 (2002) 2, pp. 171-173

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Fiscal policy and the job guarantee

Mitchell, William F.; Mosler, Warren B. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 5 (2002) 2, pp. 243-259

; and (b) the Job Guarantee, which is an open ended, fixed wage buffer stock of employed workers. The government offers a … fixed wage to anyone willing and able to work, and allows market forces to determine the total quantity of government …

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Comment on ‘Fiscal Policy and the Job Guarantee’

P.N. (Raja) Junankar - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 5 (2002) 2, pp. 265-269

help, we argue that there are significant problems of operating a job guarantee scheme at a fixed money wage. The job … the unintended effects of a job guarantee scheme: declining productivity (due to a fall in “worker discipline”), an … increased bargaining power of workers leading to increased real wages and hence implications for inflation, and the decline in …

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