GEP Research Paper 00/07
Globalisation and Labour Markets: Implications for Australian Public Policy
Peter Dawkins and Peter Kenyon
Abstract
This paper presents a review of the international literature on globalisation and labour markets and goes on to consider the policy implications especially for wages, taxes, social security and education. It then goes on to review the evidence about the effect of globalisation on the Australian labour market and consider the implications for Australian public policy. In particular, it discusses whether the existing wage setting system and its relationship with the tax and social security system, should be reformed to be more in tune with a world in which globalisation and technological change have been working in favour of high skilled labour and against low skilled labour.
Issued in May 2000.
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