Australian Fairpay Commission

The Australian Fair Pay Commission Secretariat conducts an ongoing research program that provides independent research and analysis to inform wage-setting decisions and monitor their impacts. The Commission’s commitment to high quality research is outlined in its Research Charter.

The research program consists of a mix of projects commissioned from external researchers as well as using the in-house research capability of the Secretariat.

The Secretariat has undertaken to publish all research it has commissioned.

PDFs of the Commission's hard copy versions of the published commissioned research can be downloaded from the links below.

2008

• Report on the Australian Fair Pay Commission's 2008 Stakeholder Research
  
  
• Report on Public Consultations for the Australian Fair Pay Commission's 2008 Minimum Wage Review (TNS Social Research)   
  
  
• The Economic and Social Circumstances of Australian Young People Aged 15 - 20 Years (CLMR)
  

2007 

• A Strategy for Monitoring the Micro-Economic and Social Impacts of the Australian Fair Pay Commission (NILS) 
  
  
• Monitoring Strategy for Wage-Setting Decisions (Access Economics) 
  
  
• Characteristics of minimum wage employees - revised May 2007 (Melbourne Institute)
  
  
• Report on Targeted Focus Group Public Consultations for the Australian Fair Pay Commission's 2007 Minimum Wage Review (TNS Social Research)  
  

2006

• Interactions between wages and the tax transfer system (NATSEM)
   
• Work decisions and the tax transfer system (Colmar Brunton)
   
• An updated profile of the minimum wage workforce in Australia (NILS)
   
• What are the characteristics of the employers of the low paid in Australia (Melbourne Institute)
  
  
• Characteristics of employers of the low paid (ACREW)
  
  
• Minimum wages and employment (CLMR)

General Wage-Setting Decisions 2006 and 2007 contain references to earlier versions of the published research. These are available from the Research archive.