The report uses data from both the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Employee Earnings and Hours (EEH) survey and the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, both of which have a measure of award reliance. Part 1 of the report examines the differences in earnings by gender in the 2010 EEH survey. Differences...

This report considers explanations for why data show adult employees earning below the hourly Federal Minimum Wage (FMW), including whether identifiable categories of employees fall into this group, and the extent to which this phenomenon is due to data problems. The three main data sources used were the Survey of Employment Arrangements, Retirement and Superannuation...

This report provides a profile of the Manufacturing industry and its workforce, focusing on the sectors in which low-paid employees are relatively concentrated. Topics covered include industry structure and performance, the Manufacturing labour market, and earnings and wage instruments. Manufacturing has a mixture of low and high-paying sectors. There are considerable differences in the structure...