IMF piles in behind Labor’s wages attack

Friday, 31 August 2018

Workers are missing out on wage rises because the deregulation of job protections has gone too far, new International Monetary Fund research has found.

The IMF researchers found “a statistically significant, economically large and robust negative effect of deregulation on the labor share” of national income.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.