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 - with the aim of providing some insights into the nature of …

emphasis on youth unemployment, relative to the circumstances of the population as a whole. The evidence since the seventies … the circumstances of young people cannot be fignored in considering the solutions to our unemployment problems. …

typically ignore changes in mortality rates. Using panel data from Australia, I show that rainfall lowers traffic deaths …

(unemployment in that state relative to the rest of Australia), we find that both luck and competence are equally important. This is … unemployment has a strong impact on election outcomes, with each additional percentage point of unemployment reducing the incumbent …’s re-election probability by 3-5 per cent. However, when we separate luck (unemployment in other states) from competence …

This paper reports results form a microeconomic analysis of unemployment durations. The results indicate a significant …