The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … area which is particularly relevant for Australia. This paper attempts to fill this void by estimating a multi … causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main …

Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis … pressing policy priorities in supporting different groups into employment in Australia. We identify seven distinct groups, each …

This paper analyzes the effects of 'shocks' to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the … study as despite little change in actual unemployment rates, levels of economic uncertainty grew. This affords us the … identify plausibly causal effects. We find, for boys, there is no detectable effect of community-level unemployment …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller … HILDA survey data to investigate the inter-related dynamics of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in … Australia, focussing on differences by gender and educational pathways. It shows that skills under-utilisation also exhibits …

women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We focus on the partnersﾒ involuntary job loss experiences, and analyse … regional unemployment rate, we also find a substantial discouraged worker effect …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes …

positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …