This paper analyses the relationship between ill-health, health shocks and early labour market exits among older working individuals. We represent the transition to non-employment as a discrete-time hazard model using a stock-sample from the first six waves (2001-2006) of the Household, Income...

Debate over regulation of dismissals has been intense in recent years, and renewed in the lead-up to the 2012 review of the operation of the Fair Work Act. This paper reviews the economically relevant aspects of the legislative changes from the Workplace Relations Act which operated from...

The Netherlands is the only country other than Australia where publicly-financed employment services for disadvantaged jobseekers are now primarily executed by contracted providers operating in a quasi-competitive market. Focusing on Dutch employment services for unemployment insurance (UI)...

As part of the most recent phase of liberalisation in the markets for public and social service provision, non-profit organisations have increasingly been called upon to ‘be strategic’ in a ‘for-profit’ sense. Unlike corporations, however, non-profits face significant barriers to...

In this paper we investigate the behaviour of net flows of persons between employment, unemployment and not in the labour force in Australia between 1979-2003 and the relationship of these flows to changes in the unemployment rate over that period. We find that: flows from unemployment to...

The incidence of very long-term unemployment in Australia has risen by nearly 1 per cent per annum since the late 1970s. Despite concerted active LMPs since then, the level of very long term unemployed has risen to nearly 100 000 people. The majority of these people have been workless for a...

This paper contends that the replacement of the Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) with a market-like system for employment services has formed part of a broader set of neo-liberal policy shifts, which have served to replace the goal of full employment with the diminished goal of full...

The composition of the nursing and caring workforce in Australia has changed substantially over the last 15 years. The workforce has an older age profile, works shorter hours and employs substantially more carers. In spite of the ageing of the population and a substantial increase in the number...

This paper seeks to represent and interpret the everyday operations of Job Network organisations operationalising public policy, the processes of which remain relatively hidden from public view. Focusing on the primary relationship in the policy regime informing employment services: the case...

This paper provides a critique of the Job Guarantee Scheme proposed by Mitchell and Mosler (2002). Although we agree that unemployment is due to a lack of aggregate demand and that active labour market policies and demand management can help, we argue that there are significant problems of...