[PDF] Unemployment And The Australian Labour Market eBook

Author : Keith Norris
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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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.

Author : P. N. (Raja) Junankar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113755519X

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The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD. This book provides alternative explanations of this phenomenon. Junankar begins with surveys of the labour market: labour demand, labour supply, and labour force participation. He argues that the growth of unemployment and long-term unemployment is mainly due to a lack of aggregated demand and not due to high unemployment benefits. Economics of the Labour Market shows that unemployment and long-term unemployment impose serious and significant costs on individuals, families, and society in general. Raja Junankar focuses on vital social issues arising from the malfunctioning of economies and this collection of essays tackles the real cost of unemployment.

Author : Anthony O'Donnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509928219

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This book examines the evolution of Australian unemployment law and policy across the past 100 years. It poses the question 'How does unemployment happen?'. But it poses it in a particular way. How do we regulate work relationships, gather statistics, and administer a social welfare system so as to produce something we call 'unemployment'? And how has that changed over time? Attempts to sort workers into discrete categories – the 'employed', the 'unemployed', those 'not in the labour force' – are fraught, and do not always easily correspond with people's working lives. Across the first decades of the twentieth century, trade unionists, statisticians and advocates of social insurance in Australia as well as Britain grappled with the problem of which forms of joblessness should be classified as 'unemployment' and which should not. This book traces those debates. It also chronicles the emergence and consolidation of a specific idea of unemployment in Australia after the Second World War. It then charts the eventual unravelling of that idea, and relates that unravelling to the changing ways of ordering employment relationships. In doing so, Inventing Unemployment challenges the preconception that casual work, self-employment, and the 'gig economy' are recent phenomena. Those forms of work confounded earlier attempts to define 'unemployment' and are again unsettling our contemporary understandings of joblessness. This thought-provoking book shows that the category of 'unemployment', rather than being a taken-for-granted economic variable, has its own history, and that history is intimately related to our changing understandings of 'employment'.

Author : Thomas Lange
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782542995

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Unemployment in Theory and Practice examines the effectiveness of current policies in the battle against unemployment. It uses a variety of country case studies to analyse the range of potential causes of and cures for unemployment and analyses the complex nature of labour markets.

Author : Guy Debelle
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
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Unemployment and the Australian labour market.

Author : Stephen Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2000-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521643948

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Since the 1970s the average level of unemployment in Australia has risen each decade. This has imposed huge economic, social and human costs, making unemployment one of the most pressing problems confronting Australia. Governments, however, seem powerless in the face of this problem. Drawing on the expertise of some of Australia's leading economists, this book, first published in 2000, argues that the currently fashionable approaches of wage cuts and further steps towards labour market flexibility will not solve the unemployment problem. In reality, unemployment and rising inequality are symptoms of the growing failure of contemporary labour markets to distribute jobs and incomes effectively. The contributors argue that the main solution to this problem is not wage cuts but jobs growth. This important book points to a way beyond the current policy malaise and offers detailed solutions to unemployment.

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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Labor supply
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Research report on labour market efficiency and labour policy in Australia - discusses the impact of arbitration as a wage determination procedure; considers the effects of vocational training, income tax and social assistance on labour supply, labour mobility and labour force participation; notes the role of the public sector employment service; examines symptoms of inefficiency including labour surplus, labour shortage, labour market segmentation and labour disputes. References, statistical tables.