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How market forces and weakened institutions are keeping our wages low

  • Written by John Buchanan, Head of the Discipline of Business Analytics, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
imageSince the mid 1970s and especially since the 1980s the job market changed and so did how our wages are set. Ryan Derry/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Low wages growth has been a spectre hanging around the Australian economy for some time. In our series What We Earn we unpick the causes for this and why some workers might be feeling it more than others.

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