Trade Liberalisation and Earnings Distribution in Australia

Industry Commission staff research paper

This paper by Greg Murtough, Kate Pearson and Peter Wreford was released in February 1998.

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Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Preface, Abbreviations and explanations, Summary

1 Introduction
1.1 The evolution of Australian trade and labour market policy
1.2 Changes in the distribution of earnings from employment
1.3 Conceptual framework
1.4 Research strategy

2 Trends in trade, prices, wages and employment
2.1 Trade
2.2 Producer and import prices
2.3 Changes in earnings relativities
2.4 Concluding comments

3 Input-output analysis
3.1 Methodology
3.2 Results

4 General equilibrium analysis
4.1 Industry results
4.2 Occupational results

5 Concluding comments
5.1 Key results
5.2 Policy implications

APPENDICES

A Detailed information on trade, employment and wages
A.1 Composition and direction of Australian trade
A.2 Employment by skill group and sector
A.3 Real earnings

B Technique and data used in input-output analysis
B.1 Input-output model
B.2 Decomposition of employment growth
B.3 Data

C The Monash model
C.1 Historical analysis

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