Australia's 2.5% minimum wage rise: there's something in it for you, and the economy
- Written by John Buchanan, Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
Australia has a serious wage problem. Over the past decade wages for all but the top 20% of income earners have flat-lined.
This is part of the longer-term problem concerning productivity and wages identified by groups like the OECD – namely, workers have not shared in productivity gains, with “labour market flexibility”...
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