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What the finance industry can tell us about what's holding back wages

  • Written by Robert Sobyra, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
What the finance industry can tell us about what's holding back wagesIt'd be nice if all you needed to do was to produce more. In finance, that hasn't been enough.Shutterstock

Wage growth has fallen short of the official forecasts for an extraordinary eight consecutive budgets.

What the finance industry can tell us about what's holding back wagesCommonwealth budget papers, ABS wage price index

When asked what’s needed to actually get wage growth up in line with the repeated...

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