This study adds to the knowledge of the transition period for young workers from formal schooling to the workforce. In particular, the article addresses the issue of whether previous employment experience in one or more part-time or full-time jobs incrases the probability of the individual...

The effects on the aggregate unemployment rate of employment-protection provisions has been the subject of considerable debate. This paper shows that if firms pay efficiency wages to encourage effort in the workplace, the effect of increasing employment security is to increase the efficiency...

This paper combines data from six Income distribution Surveys of the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the years 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1995 and 1996 to analyze the unemployment incidence of recent male labour market entrants in Australia.

The paper evaluates the effectiveness of growth as a remedy for unemployment in the face of a wage minimum in a Solow-Ramsey growth model. It is shown that growth alone will be sufficient to eventually eliminate any quantity of unemployment, as long as the minimum wage is not set "too high"....