Posts tagged economics
Incentives matter: Australia's tax policy cannot be based on dodgy statistics

John Humphreys

Journalists are citing questionable modelling in their crusade for higher taxes. Eager to undo one of Australia’s most significant microeconomic reforms in decades, journos are pressuring the government to instead embrace higher taxes.

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100k Aussie jobs crushed: Low-skilled job seekers pay price of wage hike

For years we’ve been told that the driver of upward economic mobility and the antidote to sticky wages is a higher minimum wage. When we consider the impact high price floors have on demand, we can see a too-high minimum wage comes at the cost of jobs.

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