A challenge facing countries with an ageing population is how to retain a larger proportion of older workers in the work force while at the same time maintaining productivity growth - the latter being a necessary condition for economic sustainability of globalised economies. Apart from...

The advent of industrial regulation by tribunal came close to the turn of the century. Wages boards began in Victoria in 1896 and courts of arbitration in 1900.The first day of the new century was also the first day of the Commonwealth of Australia, endowed with a Parliament that was empowered...

Books reviewed: Culture and the Labour Market, by Siobhan Austin, Boyd Black, author Stochastic Frontier Analysis, by Knox Lovell and Subal Kumbhakar, Tim Coelli, author Selected Essays on Economic Police, by Geoff Harcourt, Peter B. Dixon, author The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade: A...

Books reviewed: David Collins, Management Fads and Buzzwords: Critical-Practical Perspectives Andrew Pendleton, Employee Ownership, Participation and Governance: A Study of ESOP's in the UK Denise Thursfield, Post-Fordism and Skill: Theories and Perceptions Vernon M. Briggs Jr., Immigration and...