Using information collected by the 2001 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, I investigate the factors associated with underemployment, defined as a situation where a part-time employed person would like to work more hours in order to increase income. Multinomial...

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The conference spent too much time discussing unemployment. The two key labour market problems are the lack of full-time job growth and the rapid growth of all welfare recipients. Unemployment is just a small part of the structural problem in the Australian economy. For the perspective of...

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This article introduces the papers presented at the conference ‘Creating Jobs – the Role of Government’ held at the Australian National University, 6-7 September 2001, and offers some critical comments on what was learned at the Conference and on where further research is still required.