This year will be the first for some time that official unemployment rates will rise. The overall predictions are that there could be around a million people unemployed in Australia by year's end. The underemployment rate will also rise. At present, around 10 per cent of the available labour...

The importance of linked employer-employee data (LEED) in empirical research is well-established, particularly its unique contribution to our understanding of both product and labour markets. Nevertheless, more contributions from researchers are needed in order to improve the ways in which LEED...

Developments in capital markets, namely, current account imbalances and financial integration, and labour markets rigidities have been among the most noticed difficulties some countries have been facing after adopting the Euro. To discuss these issues, and the lessons that emerge from the...