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The Impact of Incomes Policy on Aggregate Wage Determination in Australia

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  • PHILIP E.T. LEWIS
  • MICHAEL G. KIRBY

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A model of aggregate wage determination for Australia is developed and used to examine the effects of incomes policies on the level of real wages. A theoretical model of wage determination which includes several channels of incomes policy effects is specified and estimated using aggregate data. The results provide strong evidence to support the view that during periods of certain incomes policies there have been important changes in behaviour in the Australian labour market. In particular, during the period of the Prices and Incomes Accord it is estimated that equilibrium real wages were over 5 per cent below what would have been expected from previous experience.

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  • Philip E.T. Lewis & Michael G. Kirby, 1987. "The Impact of Incomes Policy on Aggregate Wage Determination in Australia," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 63(2), pages 156-161, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:63:y:1987:i:2:p:156-161
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1987.tb00647.x
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    1. K.F. Wallis, 1992. "On Macroeconomic Policy and Macroeconomic Modeling," Economics Discussion / Working Papers 92-04, The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.
    2. Chapman BJ. & Gruen F., 1990. "Analysis of the Australian consensual incomes policy: the prices and incomes accord," ILO Working Papers 992754563402676, International Labour Organization.
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