A Productivity Commission staff working paper on 'Workforce Participation Rates: How Does Australia Compare?' (by Joanna Abhayaratna and Ralph Lattimore) was released January 2007. With the population ageing and the associated shift in the age structure of the population towards older groups...

This paper aims to provide an overview of the changing role of part-time work in Australia and was released on 12 June 2008. The objectives of the paper are to: * Provide a comparison of part-time work in Australia and overseas, and possible reasons for our relatively high reliance on this form...

The trade and wages debate worldwide, over the last decade has focused attention on the possible relationships between trade liberalisation and the factor distribution of income. In Australia real wages in manufacturing have remained about the same since 1977 while real GDP has doubled. At the...