We use Census data to investigate the sources of the decline in the level of employment of working age males in Australia in recent decades. Alternative measures of the male employment rate are considered before settling on two complementary measures: the full-time employment rate and the...

The paper analyzes wage incentives in labor-managed (LMF) and profit maximizing (PMF) firms, considering competitive, individualized, and collective incentives. Partially collective incentives are optimal for LMFs unless workers strike binding effort-matching agreements, which imply the...

Using data, from the 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, which match individual employees to the firms and workplaces at which they are employed, this paper examines the relative importance of both individual and workplace characteristics for wages. Results from the estimation...