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The relationship between the social welfare system and employment incentives has received considerable attention in the literature. This paper uses data from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey to consider these issues for indigenous Australians. Two measures are...
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aggregate unemployment. In this paper we explore a related but more specific issue: the consequences of immigration on the …
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This paper reports results form a microeconomic analysis of unemployment durations. The results indicate a significant …
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This paper provides an overview of the main features of unemployment in Australia, and its consequences. Its main … objectives are to: describe the main features of the evolution and distribution of unemployment; present information on labour … market outcomes underlying the changes in unemployment - with the aim of providing some insights into the nature of …
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emphasis on youth unemployment, relative to the circumstances of the population as a whole. The evidence since the seventies … the circumstances of young people cannot be fignored in considering the solutions to our unemployment problems. …
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English-speaking ones) together with stubbornly higher levels of unemployment in many others. Australia has shared in the rise … persistent unemployment, butnot to the degree that many continental European countries have. This situation provides the …
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In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of particular interest because of its relevance to the debate about the competitiveness of labour...
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There has been a great deal of turnmoil in the Australian labour market over the past 25 years. This paper describes the main features of the changes which have occured over the principal dimensions of the work environment.
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia.
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