The buying power of wages began slipping mid last year year. The wages share of national income has been sliding since 2016.
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A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint over instances of anti-union practices at Starbucks. And that was before the company’s boss threatened to withhold wages.
Inequality in organisations is difficult to shift because they are entrenched by the status quo.
Aged care reform remains unfinished business for Labor. It made a start this week but more needs to come.
Workers have been quitting more than ever. But where are they going?
While the uptick in the unemployment rate in January may seem like bad news, the reason it rose actually shows the labor market returning to normal.
A record share of workers quit their jobs in September. A human resources scholar explains how this is a trend that predates the pandemic.
The Bank of England is weighing up the costs of a change.
Canadian economist David Card won the Nobel Prize in economics for demonstrating that large-scale immigration has no effect on the wages of native-born workers. In doing so, he’s challenged Economics 101.
Current wage rises will be short term, and expensive for consumers.
Informal employment is significant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plight of informal workers needs to be highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Can the structural barriers to low-skilled employment growth be overcome?
Recent developments in the organisation of production have led to the decline of wage employment across much of the world.
Most of the million gardners employed in South Africa earn less than the minimum wage.
Companies being required to go public with information about executive and workers pay packets is increasingly becoming the norm.
Racialized women immigrants still earn less than their peers on average even when well-qualified. It’s up to employers to remove employment barriers.
A law from 1969 is still having an impact on nursing pay in Denmark today.
With the COVID-19 pandemic making inequalities worse, has the time come to make sure all interns are paid?
COVID-19 is shedding light on the impact of poverty, inequality and unemployment. This includes hardships women face and the burden placed on them to manage responsibilities every day.
The outsourcing of domestic work contributes to the race, class and gender stereotypes of domestic work. It has neither elevated the status nor improved the working conditions of domestic workers.
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin
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Senior Lecturer in Markets, Public Policy and Law, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Research economist, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
