This paper explores the idea of the labour market as a social institution by examining the relationship between culture and labour market behaviour. The term culture, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, 'is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any...

We develop a model that combines both the transaction efficiency and primary resource explanations for specialization and development. Our model builds on the Yang (1990) framework but introduces a primary resource factor into this model. We show that neither a labour surplus nor the development...

In this paper I set some information derived from data on the gross flows of males between labour market states in Australia. The data, which is monthly, has been seasonally adjusted so as to more clearly reveal underlying trends. I begin with a brief review of the labour market for males over...

This paper examines the role played in the labour market by norms of need and focuses, in particular, on the relationship between social norms and the regulation of minimum wge rates. It develops a theoretical model to describe the possible nature of this relationship and utilises the results of...

The present paper examines a simple extension of the standard labour supply model in which a poverty level is introduced at the individual level as a component of the untility function.

In this paper, we produce some information derived from data on the gross flows of females between different labour market states in Australia. The data are monthly and seasonally adjusted to reveal underlying trends more clearly. We begin with a brief overview of the labour market for females...

In comparison with the existing Australian literature, this paper provides an alternative approach of investigating the impact of recent immigrants on the real wages and unemployment of native Australians. A national cross-section analysis of 48 labour markets is employed using data from six...

This paper investigates two related matters. First, what proportion of the population is represent by the matched sample (i.e. by the gross flows data) in the Labour Force Survey, why is this proportion what it is and why does it vary over time? Second, given that slightly over 20% of the...