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When you change jobs, you get more pay – but the increase is less than it used to be

Written by Guay Lim, Professorial Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute, The University of Melbourne

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This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here.

We are changing jobs less, an observation that has been offered as an explanation for why pay increases remain low.

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