pay equalisation

No Difference Between Pay Equalisation and Minimum Wage Legislation

Posted on March 12th, 2010 in artificial minimum wage, aus, aussie dollar, cent, employee, Market News, micro cap, minimum wage, Money Weekend, pay equalisation, perth, price of labour, wage, wage rates

Perhaps even if you still don’t agree with our arguments about minimum wages and pay equalisation, maybe you can agree that artificial interference in the market by governments only tends to create another problem while claiming to solve one problem.
We’ll bang on about it for one last time today. If you’ve had enough already [...]

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Equality of Pay for Some at the Expense of Others

Posted on March 10th, 2010 in ACTU, aus, aussie dollar, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Services Union, cent, employment, Fair Work Australia, inequality, labour market, Market News, micro cap, pay equalisation, perth, taxation, unemployment

This week we’ve made a conscious decision not to write about p——y or h—–g. Even though we’ve come across a few gems worth commenting on. And even though several readers have sent us a couple of choice morsels too.
But, we’ll stick to our guns and leave any p——y or h—–g comments until next [...]

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Australian Economy Continues to Grow, Grow, Grow

Posted on March 09th, 2010 in ABS, AFR, aus, aussie dollar, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian economy, cent, economic recovery, Enron, excessive credit, female employee, mainstream economics, male employee, Market News, micro cap, minimum wage, pay equalisation, perth, Professor Walter Block, subprime, unemployment

A quick follow on from yesterday’s Money Morning. We like this quote we’ve found from Professor Walter Block:
“Consider a man and a woman each with a productivity of $10 per hour, and suppose, because of discrimination or whatever, that the man is paid $10 per hour and the woman is paid $8 per hour. [...]

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Why Pay Equalisation is Bad News for Women

Posted on March 08th, 2010 in aus, aussie dollar, cent, competitive advantage, employment, female employees, Independent Schools Council, Market News, micro cap, patent protection, pay equalisation, perth

Surprisingly, we’ve received quite a bit of feedback as a result of last Friday’s Money Morning on ‘How Patent Protection Stifles Innovation.’
The general gist of most responses – to paraphrase – has been, “patent protection is important to protect small businesses and inventors from greedy thieving big businesses.”
We’re paraphrasing, so no-one actually wrote that. [...]

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