http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:12105 In this paper, we examine the relationship between real hourly earnings and labour productivity by industry (measured as gross value added per hour) for Australia and the Netherlands. The policies promoting wage moderation in both countries in the 1980s and after were based on the belief that real wage movements had to be aligned to enterprise-level productivity growth for employment growth to be strong enough to solve the persistently high unemployment. The results suggests that productivity movements are only partially being passed on in the form of lower prices and/or higher nominal wage outcomes, so that businesses are using the productivity gains to expand their margins. We examine in detail the extent to which real hourly earnings are reflected in labour productivity growth and if the introduction of the Workplace Relations Act (1996) affected this relationship in Australia. Netherlands is used as a control having avoided any substantial changes in its wage determination system over the period examined. 2012-11-22T05:01:12.283Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:11657 Two novel schemes have been advocated to cure the problem of persistent unemployment and income insecurity in developed economies, namely Basic Income and the Job Guarantee. Human rights appear to be protected under a Basic Income system, but its impact on job creation, skill development, the wage structure, investment, employment and living standards is problematic. On the other hand, the Job Guarantee provides economic security to all individuals through access to meaningful work with opportunities for skill acquisition. The Job Guarantee may represent a step in the transition to an unconditional Basic Income, following the ongoing growth of labour productivity and the reassessment of what constitutes work. 2012-10-08T04:39:24.208Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:2419 Both the public and private sectors have since the 1980s relentlessly cut the size of their workforces. Often this downsizing manifested as the closure of a whole or part of an organisation. Some studies which have analysed the closure process have reported remarkable, counterintuitive improvements in labour productivity during the period between the closure announcement and the final working day. Drawing on a Swedish case study, and on an exploratory basis, this paper proposes a Dynamic State Model of Closedowns to generate a fuller understanding of this phenomenon. 2010-04-27T06:36:31.622Z ]]>