Wages policy in an era of deepening wage inequality / Chris Briggs, John Buchanan and Ian Watson
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- Briggs, Chris
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- Canberra : Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2006
- 44 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- 1323-7136
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- Occasional paper series (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia) ; 2006/1.
- Policy paper (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia) ; 4.
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- Machine derived contents note: 1 Introduction 1
- 1.1 The dilemmas 2
- 1.2 Why policy matters 6
- 2 Bargaining sector 8
- 2.1 Centralised or decentralised? the old mindset 9
- 2.2 Genuine choice? Enterprise bargaining vs
- coordinated flexibility 11
- 3 Non-bargaining sector 16
- 3.1 The 'low wage sector' strategy 16
- 3.2 The 'living wage' strategy 18
- 4 Commercial sector 21
- 4.1 Employees and contractors 21
- 4.2 Labour law and commercial law 22
- 4.3 The incursion of trade practices law 24
- 4.4 Implications for wages policy 25
- 5 Work and welfare 26
- 5.1 A wage earner's welfare state 26
- 5.2 The failure of employment policy 27
- 5.3 Welfare to work and wages policy 29
- 6 Where next? 33
- 6.1 Old problems, new approaches 33
- 6.2 New priorities 34
- 6.3 Conclusion 38
- List of Figures
- 1.1 Fragmentation in the setting of wages 3
- 1.2 A workplace perspective on different forms of employment 4
- 1.3 Changes in median earnings by deciles, Australia, 1989 to 2001 5
- List of Tables
- 1.1 The spread of enterprise agreements 1989, 1992,
- 1994, 1995,2000,2002,2004 7
- 3.1 Incidence of low-paid employment by occupation, age and sex (%) 16
- 3.2 Wages growth of low paid workers, 1989-1999 (%) 20.
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- Bibliography: p. 39-44.
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