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From Golden Age to Golden Age: Australia’s "Great Leap Forward"?

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Paul Frijters () (Queensland University of Technology)
Robert Gregory () (RSSS, Australian National University and IZA Bonn)

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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.

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Keywords: unemployment wage growth welfare use institutional reform Australia

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O3 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change

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