This paper explores the idea of the labour market as a social institution by examining the relationship between culture and labour market behaviour. The term culture, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, 'is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any...

Overeducation is a form of labour underutilisation which occurs when the formal education level of a worker exceeds that which is required for the job. In Australia close to 30 per cent of workers are overeducated and are underutilising their skills. Using data from the Negotiating the Life...

Overeducation is a form of labour underutilisation which occurs when the formal education level of a worker exceeds that which is required for the job. It is a form of underemployment that imposes significant costs on individuals and economies. Using data from the Negotiating the Life Course...

We develop a model that combines both the transaction efficiency and primary resource explanations for specialization and development. Our model builds on the Yang (1990) framework but introduces a primary resource factor into this model. We show that neither a labour surplus nor the development...

In this paper I set some information derived from data on the gross flows of males between labour market states in Australia. The data, which is monthly, has been seasonally adjusted so as to more clearly reveal underlying trends. I begin with a brief review of the labour market for males over...