Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33459 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2068
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The twenty-five years after WW 2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes - high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro shocks of the mid 1970s. Labour market outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population ratios fell, particularly among males; unemployment and welfare use increased; and real wages grew slowly. The golden age passed. In response, successive governments have increasingly begun to dismantle the institutional framework. We address this transition within a simple long run graphical framework to help us marshal facts and arguments and to discuss the likely impact of institutional reform.
Subjects: 
unemployment
wage growth
welfare use
institutional reform
Australia
JEL: 
J0
D6
E6
L5
O3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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