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Explainer: how international competition affects how much you earn

  • Written by Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University

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.

The slump in wage growth is not just an Australian phenomenon – wage growth in most advanced economies has been lower than expected in...

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