The gender earnings gap in Australia: learning from state comparisons.

AbstractOver the 1990s there have been a number of significant transformationsin the Australian labour market, many of them likely to affect femalerelative earnings. This paper examines the impact of changes in theregulatory industrial relations systems on gender earnings inequality.The paper begins...

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Main Authors: Preston, Alison, Crockett, Geoffrey
Format: Working Paper
Published: Curtin University of Technology 1999
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18597
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-185972017-01-30T12:08:45Z The gender earnings gap in Australia: learning from state comparisons. Preston, Alison Crockett, Geoffrey AbstractOver the 1990s there have been a number of significant transformationsin the Australian labour market, many of them likely to affect femalerelative earnings. This paper examines the impact of changes in theregulatory industrial relations systems on gender earnings inequality.The paper begins with an overview of the regulatory development in thevarious State and Federal jurisdictions. This analysis is followed with ashort discussion of why decentralised wage fixing may fail women. Theremainder of the paper offers new empirical insight into Australiangender earnings differentials via a disaggregated State analysis 1999 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18597 Curtin University of Technology fulltext
spellingShingle Preston, Alison
Crockett, Geoffrey
The gender earnings gap in Australia: learning from state comparisons.
title The gender earnings gap in Australia: learning from state comparisons.
title_full The gender earnings gap in Australia: learning from state comparisons.
title_fullStr The gender earnings gap in Australia: learning from state comparisons.
title_full_unstemmed The gender earnings gap in Australia: learning from state comparisons.
title_short The gender earnings gap in Australia: learning from state comparisons.
title_sort gender earnings gap in australia: learning from state comparisons.
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18597