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The Effect of Equal Pay for Females on the Composition of Employment in Australia *
Author(s) -
BONNELL SHEILA M.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1987.tb00667.x
Subject(s) - composition (language) , labour economics , economics , demographic economics , philosophy , linguistics
Equal pay for female workers in Australia resulted in marked increases in labour costs. These varied across industries. However. changes in the industrial structure induced by equal pay are found to contribute little by way of explanation for the relatively faster growth of female than male employment in the 1970s .