The analysis of Australian union behaviour, growth and structure has centred on the relationship between unions and arbitration. To varying degrees it has been assumed that Australian unions are, through their involvement and legal incorporation into the arbitral system of labour market...

Mathematically tractable models of unionism have been well developed and are widely used in the economic literature. However, assumptions about union goals and preferences, and how these are determined, are not supported by extensive empirical evidence. Following the lead of Clark and Oswald...

Shortly after the re-election of the Howard government in October 1998 a group of five prominent economists proposed a plan to 'cut the jobless rate' in an open letter addresses to the Prime Minister (The Australian, October 26 1998). This article seeks to critically consider the economist's...

Since the early 1970s memebership has been in a process of continual decline inmost industrialised countries, including Australia. Australian Bureau of Statistics survey datae estimates Australian union density rates declined twenty percentage points between 1975 ( 51.0 percent) and 1996 (31.0...

Over the last decade a large decline in union membership and influence has been observed in many countries. This observation has prompted many researchers to consider the means by which individual unions are able to mitigate the effects of less favourable economic and political conditions on...

South Africa faces many difficult problems in designing economic institutions in the post apartheid era. No sub-set is more controversial than those which condition and structure exchange in the labour market. What set of institutions will help to solve the key social problems of inequality and...

This paper focuses on the impact of changing employment patterns on work-related injury and illness outcomes, the accuracy of data bases recording these and the appropriateness of current prevention policies and inspectoral strategies.

The claim that the values espoused by senior managers are important for explaining the way actions are organised inside organisations has been made by a number of organisational psychological reserachers. However, empirical reserach committed to investigating such a proposition has to date been...

This paper is part of a wider study that seeks to ascertain the types of internal and external labour market practices and the extent to which labour market arrangements vary between three divisions of the Australian and New Zealand affiliate of an international investment banking institution.

This paper provides an overview of the types of occupational violence commonly experienced in Australia and other western industrialised countries, incidence and severity patterns, and identifies the most "at risk" jobs.