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Mutual obligation, unemployment and wellbeing

Saunders, Peter - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 3, pp. 167-184

Recent reforms to the Australian system of income support for the unemployed have been designed to encourage the welfare to work transition. Mutual obligation measures have been accompanied by an easing of the income test taper rate and by less generous indexation arrangements for unemployment...

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Long-Run Shifts of the Beveridge Curve and the Frictional Unemployment Rate in Australia

Groenewold, Nicolaas - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 6 (2003) 1, pp. 65-82

This paper examines the Beveridge Curve, the relationship between the unemployment and vacancy rates. Both variables are found to be non-stationary and not co-integrated which implies that the Beveridge Curve has been shifted over time by at least one non-stationary variable. We examine a number...

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Forecasting Australian Unemployment Rates

Stevenson, Max; Peat, Maurice - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 4, 1, pp. 41-55

Cyclical asymmetry has been recognized as a non-linear phenomenon in recent studies examining unemployment rate time series. The probabilistic structure of such time series is different during economic upswings and downswings. So, with forecasting unemployment rates in mind, it seems intuitive...

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Enterprise Bargaining, Working time and police

Fleming, Jenny; Peetz, David - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 5 (2002) 1, pp. 45-60

In this paper, we study the enterprise bargaining process in the Queensland Police Service and the consequences of resultant new payment arrangements. Although both management and the union were convinced that no one would be worse off under enterprise bargaining, views amongst the affected...

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Unemployment Rate Dispersion in Melbourne: The ‘Regional’ Dimension

Dixon, Robert; Mahmood, Muhammad - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 3, pp. 269-286

In this paper we examine unemployment rate dispersion across the (statistical) regions in the Melbourne metropolitan area. We find that the level of dispersion is positively correlated with the unemployment rate in all the regions taken together and that the ‘elasticity’ of dispersion with...

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Economists and Australian Wage policy Before World War II

Hancock, Keith - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 7 (2004) 4, pp. 413-438

policy in relation to (1) proposals in the 1920s for relating money wages to ‘productivity’, (2) emerging and somewhat novel …

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Causal Effects of Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market

Kleibrink, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio …

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The Aims of Lifelong Learning: Age-Related Effects of Training on Wages and Job Security

Lang, Julia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

This study analyses the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of … training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees' worries about losing their job are reduced. This observation can …

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Firm Exporting and Employee Benefits: First Evidence from Vietnam Manufacturing SMEs

Vu, Huong; Lim, Steven; Holmes, Mark; Doan, Tinh - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2012

This study examines linkages between the export participation of firms and employee benefits in terms of wages and … participation by firms in Vietnam has a positive impact on wages when taking into account firm characteristics alone. However, the … quality. Nevertheless, the impact of export participation on both wages and employment quality vary greatly with respect to …

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Cities and Growth: Moving to Toronto - Income Gains Associated with Large Metropolitan Labour Markets

Brown, W. Mark; Newbold, Bruce - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2012

This paper examines the process by which migrants experience gains in earnings subsequent to migration and, in particular, the advantage that migrants obtain from moving to large, dynamic metropolitan labour markets, using Toronto as a benchmark. There are two potentially distinct patterns to...

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