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This is what policymakers can and can't do about low wage growth

  • Written by Michael Keating, Visiting Fellow, College of Business & Economics, Australian National University
This is what policymakers can and can't do about low wage growthHouseholds feeling the pinch from frozen wages feeds into slower economic growth, and policymakers need to find a solution.Bacho/Shutterstock

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The crisis really is in real wage growth.– Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe, 2017

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