This study examines changes in earnings inequality for full-time employees in Australia between 1982 and 1994-95 using individual-level data from the ABS Income Distribution Survey. It present measures of changes in earnings inequality for disaggregated workforce groups. It also provides...

Implementation of microeconomic reform is likely to disturb the existing allocation of labour between production activities, and hence to initiate a process of adjustment in the labour market. An important aspect of this adjustment process which occurs due to microeconomic reform will involve...

Currently there are significant challenges for the funding of Australian higher education teaching. Since the early 1980s successive Australian governments have shown an unwillingness to maintain academic conditions through public sector funding, and there is little doubt that this trend will...

This study examines the determinants of the employment status of Indigenous Australians using data from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey.

Much of the debate surrounding the impact of immigration of the economy relates to the consequences of immigration for aggregate unemployment. In this paper we explore a related but more specific issue: the consequences of immigration on the probability of unemployed residents gaining a job....

It is opportune to esplore the conceptual basis of Higher Education Contribution Scheme, examine its revenue and practical implications, and ask if its institutionhas diminished the access of the disadvantaged to Australia's higher education system.

This paper studies the changes in earnings inequality. It also examines the causes and consequences of this changes.

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...

This paper reviews recent developments in rural labour markets in Australia. It examines trends in employment and unemployment in labour markets in capital city and non-capital city areas, and employment trends in the agriculture industry in Australia.

Evidence from a range of countries suggests the existence of a "wage curve" -an inverse relation between earnings of individual workers and the rate of unemployment in the region in which they live. If such a relation does exist it has important implications for labour market theory and policy....