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Can a 'living wage' springboard human capability? An exploratory study from New Zealand

Can a 'living wage' springboard human capability? An exploratory study from New Zealand

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Can a 'living wage' springboard human capability? An exploratory study from New Zealand

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Can a 'living wage' springboard human capability? An exploratory study from New Zealand

Publisher

Melbourne: Routledge

Journal title

Labour & industry (Brisbane, Qld.), 2016-03, Vol.26 (1), p.24-39

Language

English

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Melbourne: Routledge

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Contents

'Living' wage campaigns are more than calls for higher basic minima rates of pay. They are predicated on the notion that there is a discrete income below which people risk further deprivation, but above which there should be a qualitative upward shift in human capability. Problematically, however, the theory of diminishing marginal returns predicts...

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Can a 'living wage' springboard human capability? An exploratory study from New Zealand

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2008945607

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2008945607

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ISSN

1030-1763

E-ISSN

2325-5676

DOI

10.1080/10301763.2016.1152533

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