Over recent years, extensive data and research have confirmed the differential status of Indigenous Australians within the labour market. Indigenous Australians experience higher unemployment, lower participation rates and lower incomes than non-Indigenous workers (Boreham, Whitehouse and...

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...