Commentators, including the author, have argued that many of the reasons for the proliferation and survival of small unions in Australia can be traced to the law. In 1977, the author was called upon to consider not-dissimilar arguments in the context of a very different industrial relations...

This paper reports estimates of wage equations for groups of Australian workers, using pooled data from the Income Distribution Surveys for 1995 and 1996, the first two years for which continuous hours information is available for each individual. The problem of using the wage functions to...

This paper examines the role played by social security provisions and hidden unemployment in influencing trends in older male labour force participation in Australia. The paper concludes that labour demand constraints have been the dominant explanatory force behind the decline in older male...