Wage Policies and Income Distribution in an Open Economy with Special Reference to the Australian Context
Author: Peter Andrew Scherer
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 830
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Author: Peter Andrew Scherer
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 830
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keith Hancock
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 1922064467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe advent of industrial regulation by tribunal came close to the turn of the century. Wages boards began in Victoria in 1896 and courts of arbitration in 1900. The first day of the new century was also the first day of the Commonwealth of Australia, endowed with a Parliament that was empowered to institute its chosen models of conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of interstate industrial disputes. This book is a study of the operation of conciliation and arbitration, especially by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, from the inception of the system until World War II. It is not, however, a general history of conciliation and arbitration. It does not, for example, deal with the successes and failures of the tribunals in preventing strikes and lockouts; or with the manifold legal issues to which the system gave rise, unless they affected significantly the tribunals' exercise of their power to fix wages and conditions. Rather, it is about fixing the terms of employment; and it attempts to set the tribunals' performance in an economic context. It is about 'wage policy', if the term is interpreted broadly enough to include both prescribed wages and other factors that affect the cost of labour, including working hours and leave.
Author: Felix Paukert
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9789221077497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at how developing countries have had increasing difficulties, especially since the 1970s, in coping with inflation, in balancing efficiency and equity in wage policies, and in achieving economic growth and income distribution through appropriate taxation and expenditure programmes.
Author: Nanak Kakwani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-06-27
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521308380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelops techniques to analyze the income inequality and welfare and measure the direct impact of taxes and government cash transfers on the distribution of income. Also reveals the effects of current government programs on the welfare of particular groups in the community.
Author: Ms.Anne Romanis Braun
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1986-09-15
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780939934751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by Anne Romanis Braun, a former staff member of the IMF's Research Department, this volume deals with the nature of wage determination and the problem of securing an economically appropriate development of money incomes in an open economy over the medium term.
Author: Engelbert Stockhammer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1137357932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume seeks to go beyond the microeconomic view of wages as a cost having negative consequences on a given firm, to consider the positive macroeconomic dynamics associated with wages as a major component of aggregate demand.
Author: Ms.Era Dabla-Norris
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 1513547437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely amongst countries, with some common drivers being the skill premium associated with technical change and globalization, weakening protection for labor, and lack of financial inclusion in developing countries. We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the top 20 percent results in lower growth—that is, when the rich get richer, benefits do not trickle down. This suggests that policies need to be country specific but should focus on raising the income share of the poor, and ensuring there is no hollowing out of the middle class. To tackle inequality, financial inclusion is imperative in emerging and developing countries while in advanced economies, policies should focus on raising human capital and skills and making tax systems more progressive.
Author: Sue Richardson
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9780858897281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere 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.
Author: Jeff Borland
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 268
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Author: Jill Rubery
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 90
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