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Introducing shadow equity: a fresh idea to escape the low wage trap

  • Written by Rosalind Dixon, Professor of Law, UNSW
Introducing shadow equity: a fresh idea to escape the low wage trapGetting shadow equity might get us better paid.Shutterstock

This is the second in a three-part mini-symposium on Wages, Unemployment and Underemployment presented by The Conversation and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Read the other pieces in the series here.

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