1001EHR Employment Relations Assessment Item 2: ESSAY Several explanations have been put forward to explain why the gender-wage gap persists in Australia. Pick two and critically evaluate each. Within Australia’s workforce history‚ there has been a strong presence of the gender wage gap between men and women. The differences in wages between men and women still seem to persist in today’s society (Sap 1993). A study by van Wanrooy (2009) suggests that even though there is an increase of women
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United States‚” especially with regards to women and wage discrimination. The practice of paying men more than women for the same job‚ because men had to provide for their families‚ was once accepted in the world of business‚ but is now illegal due to the Equal Pay Act of 1963. However‚ even today women continue to earn substantially less money than men in comparable positions. The statistics suggest that women have made progress in closing the wage gap as of late‚ but those numbers can be somewhat
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National Minimum Wage Over the last few decades the economy has changed greatly but one thing that hasn’t changed much is the minimum wage. In politics the national minimum wage is a huge debate. Not only because it affects workers‚ but also it affects businesses. In places like Denmark the minimum wage is $20 USD while in the United States it is $10.10. The minimum wage needs to be increased because right now it doesn’t account for inflation‚ and because the present minimum wage is not enough
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executive with an income of $1‚000 a day‚ ...tell you that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry” (DOL.gov). This was 76 years ago by a Democratic president whose rhetoric sounds like something our current Democratic president would say. President Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor and Standards Act on Saturday June 25‚ 1938 and which effectively ended child labor in America and mandated an hourly wage of twenty-five cents which affected one in every five workers
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upsurge in the minimum wage is a constructive step for the federal government to take‚ the most recent wage trek could result in some harmful effects. President Obama stated in September 2014‚ “An increase in the minimum wage will boost income for the poorest workers without the danger of creating more unemployment.” Is this statement about an increase in minimum wage really accurate? There are two very distinct sides to the debate about minimum wage. The push for a minimum wage raise is a major issue
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Some people may support minimum wage legislation because they believe it will help struggling workers to make ends meet. What do you think about that? Minimum wage‚ as a kind of price floor‚ refers to the least amount of money that employers can legally pay labors for per hour of work. Therefore‚ government sets a price that is under the market equilibrium price in order to reduce the poverty and ensure that young employees and minority will not be treated unequally. However‚ those aimed goals
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Types of Unemployment: * Classical Unemployment Classical or real-wage unemployment occurs when real wages for a job are set above the market-clearing level‚ causing the number of job seekers to exceed the number of vacancies. Many economists have argued that unemployment increases the more the government intervenes into the economy to try to improve the conditions of those without jobs. For example‚ minimum wage laws raise the cost of laborers with few skills to above the market equilibrium
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The Wage Gap in America The wage gap is a serious problem that has consequences for women in America‚ our two parent families and our single mom households. The government tries to reduce the wage gap between men and women’s earnings and tries to make sure that women’s talents are properly used and rewarded. A lot has been done to relive the wage gap in the past fifty years‚ but it still is not enough. Women can do things on their own to help close the wage gap. They can get a non-traditional
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is not a federal minimum wage. Some states have their own minimum wage‚ but can be very low‚ for example‚ Georgia’s minimum wage is only $5.15 an hour. There are also four states that do not require a minimum wage. People are struggling to a day to day basis with putting food on the table for their family. If our country had a required federal minimum wage of $15 an hour‚ there would be fewer people who will struggle financially. Firstly‚ just by raising the minimum wage‚ People can afford to pay
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A minimum wage is introduced into an experimental labor market characterized by gift exchange. In the experiment‚ subjects are randomly divided into two groups‚ including manager group and employees group‚ with ten subjects in each group. In all periods each manager was matched anonymously with one employee no more than twice and never re-matched in two consecutive periods. In each period‚ the manager makes an individual wage offer to his matched employee and wage offers were written directly on
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