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The Living Wage Case: How Tight Were the Economic Constraints on Equity?

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  • Suzie Jones
  • Tim Harcourt

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The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) brought down the first stage of the ‘Living Wage’ Case decisions on 22 April 1997. For the first time in nearly 30 years the decision was split. This article analyses the economic rationale for both majority and minority decisions and argues that the majority decision was overly cautious and conservative in its assessment of the economic constraints on the Commission's capacity to award a pay increase to low paid workers.

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  • Suzie Jones & Tim Harcourt, 1997. "The Living Wage Case: How Tight Were the Economic Constraints on Equity?," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 8(1), pages 156-167, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:8:y:1997:i:1:p:156-167
    DOI: 10.1177/103530469700800112
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    1. Tim Harcourt, 1997. "The Economics of the Living Wage," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 30(2), pages 194-203, June.
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