Industry-specific minimum wages in Australia have long been set by government tribunals. Although creating microeconomic inefficiency, the system may facilitate incomes policies, such as the 10% wage cut in 1931. This paper uses personnel records from the Union Bank of Australia to examine the...

The authors examined the effects of remedial mathematics on performance in university-level economics courses using a natural experiment. They studied exam results prior and subsequent to the implementation of a remedial mathematics course that was compulsory for a subset of students and...