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Protecting the Low Income Earner: Minimum Wage Determination in Australia

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The Minimum Wage, in various variants, has been an important part of Australian wage determination for over a century. This paper documents the development of the minimum wage and in so doing highlights the pivotal role of the Sunshine Harvester case. That case left a number of legacies which are examined in other parts of the paper. These include the bifurcated nature of wage determination, consideration of family size, the sexual division of labour and wages, the conflict between needs and capacity to pay, wage adjustment indexes and the role of minimum wages in a decentralised wages system.

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  • David H. Plowman, 1995. "Protecting the Low Income Earner: Minimum Wage Determination in Australia," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 6(2), pages 252-287, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:6:y:1995:i:2:p:252-287
    DOI: 10.1177/103530469500600206
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    1. Reg HAMILTON & Matt NICHOL, 2023. "One hundred years of dynamic minimum wage regulation: Lessons from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 162(3), pages 407-429, September.
    2. David H. Plowman & Chris Perryer, 2010. "Moral Sentiments and the Minimum Wage," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 21(2), pages 1-21, December.

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