Low Wages and the Distribution of Family Income in Australia
Low Wages and the Distribution of Family Income in Australia

Author: Sue Richardson

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 9780858897281

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There has been extensive debate during the past few years in Australia about whether cutting minimum wages would help reduce unemployment, by generating new jobs that could be taken by the currently unemployed. There has also been debate, both in Australia and overseas, about whether increase in minimum wages would decrease family income inequality. Despite the importance of these issues, remarkably little is know about low wage workers. This paper analyses who are the low paid workers in Australia, establishes whether they live in low income households, identifies the sources of income for families with low wage workers, and looks at whether families with low wage workers are substantially over-represented among the poor. The analysis suggests that a substantial proportion of low wage workers live in families in the upper half of the income distribution - generally because they live in a family where another person also earns income. On the other hand, families with low wage earner are about twice as likely to be in poverty as are wage and salary families generally.

Reshaping the Labour Market
Reshaping the Labour Market

Author: Sue Richardson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-12-06

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780521654241

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The outcomes of the labour market were the major economic and social problems of OECD countries. Inflation virtually disappeared, material standards of living on average were high, but 35 million people remained unemployed, inequality of earnings was rising and the establishment of regular employment was increasingly difficult for young people. In this 2000 book, a team of leading economists take Australia as a case study in which to examine whether regulation of the labour market assists or detracts from the achievement of desirable labour market outcomes. Attention is focused especially on the provision of adequate incomes and jobs for low-skilled workers, because this is the area in which labour markets around the world, including Australia, have failed most seriously in the past.

Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries
Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2008-10-21

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9264044191

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This report provides evidence of a fairly generalised increase in income inequality over the past two decades across OECD countries, but the timing, intensity and causes of the increase differ from what is typically suggested in the media.

Reshaping Australia's Economy
Reshaping Australia's Economy

Author: John Nieuwenhuysen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-12-12

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521011204

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This book draws together analysts to contribute to a major assessment and 'audit' of the Australian economy.

Battlers and Billionaires
Battlers and Billionaires

Author: Andrew Leigh

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2024-10-08

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1922231045

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Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway? In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best. From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now, inequality is returning to the heights of the 1920s. Leigh shows that while inequality can fuel growth, it also poses dangers to society. Too much inequality risks cleaving us into two Australias, occupying fundamentally separate worlds, with little contact between the haves and the have-nots. And the further apart the rungs on the ladder of opportunity, the harder it is for a kid born into poverty to enter the middle class. Battlers and Billionaires sheds fresh light on what makes Australia distinctive, and what it means to have – and keep – a fair go.

Deep and Persistent Disadvantage in Australia
Deep and Persistent Disadvantage in Australia

Author: Rosalie McLachlan

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781740374453

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"This paper is about disadvantage in Australia, and in particular, about Australians who experience deep and persistent disadvantage. Strong economic growth is a way of increasing living standards and opportunities. Yet despite growing levels of prosperity over the last two decades, and the unemployment rate more than halving, there are concerns within the community that some Australians are being 'left behind'."--Page 3.

Labour Market Deregulation
Labour Market Deregulation

Author: Russell D. Lansbury

Publisher: Federation Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781862875944

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Keith Hancock is honoured and celebrated in this work, following the significant contributions he made not only to academic research and teaching, but also to the practice of industrial relations, through the various roles he held as Professor, Vice-Chancellor, Senior Deputy President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and author of major government reviews and inquiries.The workshop held in his honour included a number of commentators. More specifically, the following issues arising from the papers were actively debated:Whether a decentralised and less regulated labour marketing is a necessary condition for meeting the requirements of global competition The effects of labour market deregulation on employment and the nature of employment on income distribution on wage inequality, on productivity, on work stress and on job satisfaction The consequences of labour market deregulation for Australians' work/care regime The impact of labour market deregulation on trade unions Whether macro-economic, policy has been unduly restrained by the risk of inflation in a deregulated labour market How labour market deregulation has affected industrial relations as a field of study and research, and How the nature of rights and obligations of employers, employees and unions have been affected by the changes in labour market regulation. Contributors include Keith Hancock, Ron McCallum, Barbara Pocock, Peter Saunders, Ron Callus, Sue Richardson, RG Gregory, Rae Cooper and Willy Brown.