23 research outputs found
Design and redesign of a quasi-market for the reintegration of jobseekers: empirical evidence from Australia and the Netherlands
Apreciación provisional de los servicios de empleo concertados establecidos en Australia
Externalisation des services publics de I'emploi: évaluation préliminaire de I'expérience australienne
Gender Differences in the Impact of the ‘Work for the Dole’ Program on Wellbeing and Access to Latent Benefits
Devolving public employment services: Preliminary assessment of the Australian experiment
Recent trends in pay equity: Beyond the aggregate statistics
The earnings gap between men and women has remained comparatively stable at an aggregate level over the 1990s in Australia. From one perspective, this is a reminder of the considerable difficulty of addressing wage differentials once the most overt forms of wage discrimination have been removed, and of the limited impact of most policy initiatives. From another, it may be seen as evidence that dire predictions about the effects of decentralisation on the earnings gap have failed to materialise. In this paper, I use Australian Bureau of Statistics data to show that a number of different trends are evident underneath the relatively static picture shown by the aggregate statistics, particularly as wage dispersion has increased. The data suggest not only that the prospects for pay equity are far from benign, but also that in the current labour market the issue of gender pay inequality cannot be effectively addressed separately from wage inequality more generally