Pitch Engine
The Times Real Estate

.

Vital Signs: dismal wages growth makes a joke of budget forecasts

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imagePay packets rose just 0.5% in the first quarter.bradleypjohnson/Flickr, CC BY-ND

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: investor loans...

Read more: Vital Signs: dismal wages growth makes a joke of budget forecasts

More Articles ...

  1. What the underground market for ransomware looks like
  2. The gender pay gap is hurting productivity
  3. Budget 2017: lack of competition is why government is moving so hard against the banks
  4. Politics podcast: Mathias Cormann and Anna Bligh on the new bank tax
  5. Budget's 'good debt' conversion underpins $70b-plus infrastructure program: experts respond
  6. Morrison's fresh start budget comes with fresh pain
  7. Why older Australians don't downsize and the limits to what the government can do about it
  8. Vital Signs: why the government still thinks it can 'grow away' the deficit
  9. Why biased budget forecasts make poor politics
  10. Politics podcast: John Hewson on the budget climate
  11. Australian Twitter is more diverse than you think
  12. Politics podcast: Jane Halton on how to make a federal budget
  13. Explainer: what is reflation and is Australia experiencing it?
  14. Chevron is just the start: modelling shows how many billions in revenue the government is missing out on
  15. Why and how businesses should protect against data breaches from within
  16. Australian governments are treading lightly around Airbnb
  17. Let’s stop kicking the innovation football around
  18. Five tips to get the most out of your workday
  19. Politics podcast: Jenny Lambert on the 457 visa scrapping
  20. Budget explainer: the federal-state battle for funding
  21. Curious kids: where does money come from?
  22. Australian government axes 457 work visa: experts react
  23. Budget explainer: has there been a blowout in social security and welfare spending?
  24. Here's how superannuation is already financing homes
  25. How the blockchain will transform housing markets
  26. Explainer: how wage growth contributes to the economy
  27. Census 2016: Women are still disadvantaged by the amount of unpaid housework they do
  28. Apple Pay may have won the battle but it may not win the war
  29. Beyond the gloomy headlines, this global index suggests manufacturing is in good shape
  30. ATNIX: Debbie misses Twitter
  31. How to split the good from the bad in online reviews and ratings
  32. Governments are trapped in a vicious cycle of housing policies and prices
  33. What economics has to say about housing bubbles
  34. Comparing Australia's electricity charges to other countries shows why competition isn't working
  35. Myth busting claims on the impact of the company tax cut
  36. Houses aren't more unaffordable for first home buyers, but they are riskier
  37. The government is belatedly backing the penalty rates cut it always wanted
  38. Co-working is evolving to combine co-living
  39. Rising imports make the case for Trump's border adjustment tax in Australia
  40. Vital Signs: if it looks like a bubble and sounds like a bubble...
  41. National Science Statement does little to bring industry and researchers together
  42. Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it
  43. It's harder for governments to tax their way out of rising inequality
  44. Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do
  45. The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
  46. Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first
  47. Value capture: a good idea to fund infrastructure but not easy in practice
  48. Women are dropping out of economics, which means men are running our economy
  49. Unpicking the labyrinth that is India's Adani
  50. Embracing the bots: how direct to consumer advertising is about to change forever