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Unemployment and the Newstart Allowance

Australia’s Newstart benefit hasn’t been increased in real terms in a generation, and pressure is growing on the Commonwealth government

By Raja Junankar

Update on Penalty Rates and Job-Creation: Two Years Later

July 1 marked the implementation of the next stage of reduced penalty rates in the retail and hospitality industries in

By Jim Stanford

Kick-Starting Wage Growth: What the Commonwealth Government Could do NOW

Australia’s economy continues to endure historically slow growth in wages and salaries, that is undermining household incomes, consumer spending, and

By Jim Stanford

Union Organising and Labour Market Rules: Two Sides of the Same Coin

International evidence is clear that there is a strong, positive correlation between a country’s protection of labour freedoms, and the

By Jim Stanford

Estimating Wage Trends From Personal Income Tax Data

New analysis of income tax data confirms a dramatic slowdown in Australian wages in recent years – and the slowdown

By Jim Stanford

The Importance of Minimum Wages to Recent Australian Wage Trends

Tomorrow the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release its quarterly Wage Price Index: the most commonly-reported measure of wage growth

By Jim Stanford

April Holiday Cluster Highlights Income Losses From Reduced Penalty Rates

Many Australians are eagerly anticipating a unique concentration of public holidays in coming days. There is a ten-day period (stretching

By Jim Stanford

Wages, Taxes and the Budget: How to Genuinely Improve Living Standards

This week’s pre-election Commonwealth budget will feature reductions in personal income taxes, as the Coalition government tries to overcome a

By Jim Stanford, Troy Henderson

Workplace Policy Reform in New Zealand

Australia can learn much from the policy leadership of the Ardern Government in New Zealand and its reforms to address

By Alison Pennington

Australia’s Economy Heads Into Election on a Weak Note

The ABS has released what is likely the last quarterly GDP report before a Commonwealth election expected in May. Coalition

By Jim Stanford

Turning ‘Gigs’ Into Decent Jobs

What’s a ‘gig’ job, anyway? There’s lots of media hype about how people won’t have jobs in the future (they’re

By Alison Pennington, Jim Stanford

What’s a Million, Anyway?

Million jobs not what it used to be: new report In the lead-up to the 2013 federal election, then-Opposition Leader

By Jim Stanford, Matt Grudnoff, Troy Henderson