When is 3 plus 1 equal to 3.1? Suggested methods of examining wage settlements to determine their annual rate of adjustment
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- Published by Victoria University of Wellington Library in New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations
- Vol. 15 (1) , 49-60
- https://doi.org/10.26686/nzjir.v15i1.7563
Abstract
One focus in the current debate over labour market "flexibility" has been the extent to which there is a dispersion of wage settlements. But determining the degree of dispersion is no easy task. With the abandonment of the "12 month rule", which had applied in the legislation from 1974, a proportion of documents now have terms greater or less than 12 months. Harbridge (1988) found that 13 percent of the documents negotiated in the 1986-87 wage round had terms other than 12 months with a range from 3.5 to 17.5 months.Keywords
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