Download or read book An Analysis of Labour Force Participation Rates in Australia written by J. Leaper and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Who s in the Labour Force written by Australia. Bureau of Labour Market Research and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report on the impact of demographic aspects and the opportunity for flexible arrangement of working time on labour force participation in Australia - describes labour market measurement and evaluation techniques; investigates hours of work and duration of working life; compares short time working, part time employment and disguised unemployment among men and woman workers; includes comparison of five other OECD countries; discusses training policy and employment creation measures, etc. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.

Download or read book Balancing Families and Work written by Christabel M. Young and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Connecting People with Jobs Key Issues for Raising Labour Market Participation in Australia written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on Australia is the third country study published in a series of reports looking into strategies to encourage greater labour market participation of all groups in society with a special focus on the most disadvantaged.

Download or read book Immigrants and the Australian Labour Market written by Robert Ackland and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australian Models of Labour Force Participation written by Yvonne Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Assessment of the Informal Labour Market in Australia written by Norman Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working paper on an evaluation of the informal sector and hidden economy labour market in Australia - includes definitions; analyses private and public information sources and data collecting on labour force participation incl. Hours of work, the self employed, multiple or dual jobholding, income, consumer expenditure; outlines suggestions for future research methodology. References, statistical tables.

Download or read book Labour Utilisation in Australia written by Derek L. Bosworth and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economics of Australian Labour Markets written by Keith Norris and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of labour economics text has been expanded and extensively revised. Contains a new chapter on trade unions, and includes concepts for review and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. Integrates theoretical material with data on Australian labour markets. Contains new sections on topics such as labour absence, reservation wages, implicit contract theory, efficiency wage theory, and the Accord. Includes an index. The author is Professor of Economics at Murdoch University.

Download or read book Beyond the Unemployment Rate written by Steven Robert Foster Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The official labour force statistics that are used in Australia have serious limitations. While appropriate for characterising the employment and unemployment situations of a labour market dominated by standard employment relations, however, they may now be inappropriate as standard employment relations no longer dominate the Australian labour market. Over the past 25 years, significant restructuring of both the economy and the labour market has occurred resulting in slower growth of full-time employment, a substantial increase in part-time work, a continued decline in the male labour force participation rate and a continued increase in the female participation rate. As a result, two serious problems emerged in the Australian labour market in the wake of the recession of the early-1990s, a substantial increase in both hidden unemployment and visible underemployment, which were not reflected in the official Australian measures of labour underutilisation, that is the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate and the trend unemployment rate. Up until the late-1980s, hidden unemployment and visible underemployment were not important sources of labour underutilisation in Australia, but they now contribute significantly to the level of labour underutilisation. Herein lies the problem that is the crux of this thesis. The growth in hidden unemployment and visible underemployment means that the official measures of labour underutilisation for Australia, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate and the trend unemployment rate, no longer provide accurate estimates of labour underutilisation. In fact, they essentially only measure cyclical unemployment and frictional unemployment, which are the core forms of unemployment and joblessness associated with standard employment relations. Consequently, they no longer provide an appropriate basis for the development of employment, economic and social policy in Australia. New indicators are needed that yield better measures of labour underutilisation and hence provide a better basis for public policy. This thesis develops three new labour market indicators that are then used to re-examine the experience of the South Australian labour market over the period 1989 to 2005. The first section of the thesis provides a critical review of the official Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force indicators, and a range of alternative labour force indicators that have been developed since the 1990s. This discussion leads to the development of three new labour force indicators with the particular characteristic of providing broad accessibility for labour market analysts and policy makers including those who generally are not literate in econometric techniques. The second section uses these labour force indicators to re-examine, and re-interpret, the experience of the South Australian labour market over the period 1989 to 2005. The third section draws conclusions from this analysis, arguing in particular that the actual level of labour underutilisation in South Australia is about treble the level that is obtained from either the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate or the trend unemployment rate. Some key policy implications of this finding are then discussed." -- abstract, pages x-xi.

Download or read book Labour Force Participation in Australia written by Australia. Bureau of Labour Market Research and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference report on theoretical aspects of labour force participation and labour supply in Australia - notes trends during 1970s; develops economic models of aggregate and individual labour supply; using survey data, discusses decision making of woman workers, esp. Married women, and school leavers. List of participants. Graphs, references, statistical tables.

Download or read book A cohort analysis of unemployment and participation rates for Australia written by Ravi Ravindiran and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Labour Force Australia written by Ian Castles and published by Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilian population 15 years of age and over, civilian labour force, employed persons, unemployed persons and persons not in the labour force. Characteristics shown include labour force status, age, marital status, birthplace, period of arrival in Australia, States and Territories, capital cities, industry, occupation, status of worker, hours worked, participation rates and duration of unemployment. This publication updates The Labour force, Australia : historical summary, 1966-1984 and contains the principal labour force time series from 1978 onwards.

Download or read book Evaluation Of A Labour Market Program written by Ngoc Luan Ho Trieu and published by QESINVACC. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of survey data of retrenched workers from an Australian car plant. This report presents results of a statistical analysis of data from the two surveys of retrenched workers from the closure of a large car plant due to structural changes in the manufacturing sector of the economy. The results are used to evaluate the labour market program which aims to provide flexible packages of vocational training for workers after their retrenchment. The analysis involves the use of logistic regression models in the multivariate analysis to determine factors associated with the probability of retrenched workers’ participation in the program and their re-employment prospect, with an emphasis on training provided by the program as a factor of main interest. The interaction of training with other variables in the model is also included in the report. The report is prepared by Ngoc Luan Ho Trieu (B.Ec, B.A (University Of Western Australia), Grad.Dip.Economics, Grad.Dip.Ecometrics, M.Ec. of Development (Australian National University).

Download or read book Labour Force Participation Rates in Australia and Selected Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Labour Force written by Australian Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1972- include statistical data compiled by the Bureau under its earlier name: Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics.

Download or read book Empirical Insights Into Australia s Labour Market written by Nhung Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tax and transfer systems are critical and essential instruments for redistributing income and encouraging work incentives (Joumard et al., 2013). Like most OECD countries, Australia has a progressive income tax system where the nominal marginal tax rate increases as income grows. Personal income tax accounts for the most significant portion of tax revenue. Benefits are entitlements financed from general revenue and are either income- or asset-tested (Whiteford, 2010). The tax and transfer system aims to provide both adequate social welfare and to encourage labour participation. However, these can sometimes conflict (Adam et al., 2006; Blundell, 2002). For instance, while a tax cut may encourage work, the overall incentive to work, combined with complex changes in transfer systems such as family benefits and public pensions, may create unexpected disincentives for low-income workers to enter the labour market. Building upon these foundational issues, economists have developed several labour supply models based on the prevailing utility theory in an attempt to explain the influences of tax and transfer systems on heterogeneous groups of families and, therefore, on their labour participation decisions (Blundell, 2003; Callan et al., 2012; Meghir & Phillips, 2010). However, the standard method has several theoretical and empirical challenges as it requires assumptions about complex human behaviour rationales which may be unfounded, especially when adding tax and benefits into the model (Keane, 2010; Manski, 2014). Additionally, it is challenging to completely account for unobserved heterogeneity because, strict numeric utility maximisation may fail to obtain convergence when relaxing the distributional assumption on parameters and model specifications. Using data from nearly the past two decades, this thesis empirically investigates how financial incentives are distributed and have evolved in the Australian labour market and presents empirical evidence on how such incentives interact with people's labour supply decisions. The findings suggests heterogeneities in behaviour are underestimated in the previous literature and are conditional on the current labour market environment. Specifically, the thesis focuses on answering the following questions: What are the main determinants and the distribution of monetary work incentives provided by the tax and transfer system in Australia, and how have these evolved in the past two decades? (2) Do different population groups respond differently in their labour participation decisions when facing the same financial incentives? (3) Do the financial incentives from different sources (e.g., childcare subsidy vs income tax) have the same effect on labour force participation for mothers with young children? To study these questions, this thesis examines the changes in the labour force transitions through participation tax rate (PTR), a key indicator reflecting financial incentives offered by the tax and welfare system and illustrate the disincentives for specific family situations to enter the workforce. Additionally, the chapter uses a semi-parametric approach to estimate the relationship between the variations in the incentivise and the labour force outcome taking into account both observed characteristics directly and unobserved traits indirectly by grouping individuals with similar attributes. This methodology allows for a more nuanced examination of behavioural response heterogeneity and offers estimates on the less-explored asymmetric effects of incentives on labour supply (Bartels & Pestel, 2016). These estimations help analyse the income consequences of transitions between employment and non-employment in different population subgroups. In addition to incorporating flexible controls for age, education, and family characteristics, I conduct the analysis in smaller population cells segmented by age, gender, and marital status. This analysis aims both to capture heterogeneity and to mitigate potential bias in the estimation due to unobserved factors. Such an estimation strategy challenges the commonly disputed rationality assumption and empirically derives behavioural responses to the tax system through PTRs. Moreover, the thesis disaggregates PTRs into two components - PTR tax-benefit and PTR childcare - to exploit policy variation over time and examine both cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of different financial incentives on participation decisions, particularly for women with young children. To provide a comprehensive view, the thesis also explores the factors that dominate changes in PTRs over time using population-wide counterfactual simulation and a Shapley-Owen decomposition model. This method contrasts with those that focus on "typical" individuals and households, capturing the actual utilisation of personal income tax and deductions in various family circumstances with differing incomes and demographic characteristics. Thus, it presents the distribution of PTRs more extensively than previous studies. The findings indicate that Australia's tax and transfer system from 2001 to 2019 enhanced work incentives, especially for low- and middle-income earners. Overall, the majority of people aged between 25 and 60 have PTRs ranging from 35% to 45%. Workers aged 40-55 have lower PTRs compared to younger workers, suggesting increased monetary incentives to work as they approach retirement age. Empirical results from a Shapley-Owen model reveal that family status is the primary factor dominating the monetary incentives imposed by Australia's tax and transfer system. This suggests that support for specific families, particularly those with children or secondary earners, plays a pivotal role in boosting labour force participation. Further, the semi-parametric estimations reveal that responses to taxation changes are highly heterogeneous, even within a group of population with similar observed characteristics, and vary based on age, income, and current PTR. This challenges the assumption underlying some policies that people within the same group will have homogenous responses. Women show greater responsiveness than men, indicating a higher elasticity of labour force participation concerning PTRs. Additionally, young people--both single and in couples--in Australia are most sensitive to changes in PTRs, which directly influence disposable income. The efficacy of PTRs in promoting labour force participation varies depending on one's current employment status. Finally, the research shows that increases in direct taxation and cash transfers have greater impact on reducing the labour supply of mothers than childcare subsidies, which are administered as consumption subsidies. Interestingly, single mothers are less responsive to changes in both transfers and childcare subsidies. These observations suggest distinct effect of monetary support through different welfare channels and underscore the need for policymakers to recalibrate benefit structures carefully to balance financial assistance with workforce engagement incentives. They also suggest that interventions targeting childcare subsidies may offer greater potential to enhance women's labour market engagement.