Australia's Unemployment Problem

Le, Anh‐Tuan; Miller, Paul W.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2000.tb00006.x

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“…5 The estimates of the 4 The study of unemployment is conducted here within a similar framework. Le and Miller (2000) provide a review of modelling issues and provide comparison results.…”

Section: Econometric Analysesmentioning

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Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labour Market Success

Chiswick¹,

Lee²,

Miller³

2003

Economic Record

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The present paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Aspects of Literacy survey to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and schooling. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly intercorrelated. A 'general to specific' approach identifies the most relevant literacy and numeracy variables. Including the others adds little explanatory power. Among males and females separately, approximately half of the total effect of schooling on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and approximately half to the direct effect of schooling. There is apparently no indirect effect of labour market experience through literacy and numeracy on participation or unemployment. The direct and total effects of experience are the same. Similarly, the direct and total effects of literacy and numeracy are reasonably similar to each other.

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“…5 The estimates of the 4 The study of unemployment is conducted here within a similar framework. Le and Miller (2000) provide a review of modelling issues and provide comparison results.…”

Section: Econometric Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labour Market Success

Chiswick¹,

Lee²,

Miller³

2003

Economic Record

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“…The question raised by considerations of individual contexts is the extent to which individual characteristics and background are important regardless of the geographic context. The range of existing research focusing on the impacts of individual characteristics on labour market outcomes provide significant background information on the likely outcomes (see for example Beggs and Chapman, 1988; Wooden, 1991; Le and Miller, 1999, 2000) and we would expect these impacts to remain when a multi‐dimensional approach is considered.…”

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People, Space and Place: a Multidimensional Analysis of Unemployment in Metropolitan Labour Markets

Baum

Mitchell

2010

Geographical Research

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It is becoming increasingly apparent that, in order to understand a range of socio-economic outcomes, research needs to be focused on a multi-dimensional approach that accounts for individual characteristics and behaviours together with locality and activity within space and place. Within labour market analysis there is a need to situate empirical analysis within a conceptual framework that considers both the assets of individuals within the labour force and the social and local labour market contexts in which they find themselves. Using a broad notion of employability, this paper develops an analysis of unemployment in Australia's metropolitan labour markets. Specifically it uses a combination of individual survey data and aggregate labour market data to consider the associations between these multi-level factors. It finds that, while individual characteristics are important in understanding unemployment in metropolitan areas, it is equally the case that the strength of spatially distinct labour markets also plays a role. The paper reaches the conclusion that, while contemporary labour market policy tends to focus on individual characteristics, there is a need to widen the policy understanding of labour market outcomes so that other broader contexts, including the impact of space and place, are also seen as being influential. KEY WORDS regional labour markets; unemployment; employability; space and place; disadvantage IntroductionQuestions regarding the uneven nature of labour market outcomes are a key topic within the social science literature. Research has focused on, among other things, understanding the uneven nature of jobs growth and questions of distributional outcomes (Partridge and Rickman,

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“…These findings are also consistent with results obtained from reduced-form equations of the unemployment rate in structural labour market models (Pissarides, 1991, Huay and Groenewold, 1992, Scarpetta, 1996, Powell and Murphy, 1997, Debelle and Vickery, 1998, Downes and Bernie, 1999. Further support is provided by more descriptive work, which demonstrates that a common theme in papers on unemployment in Australia is that business cycle fluctuations and real wage growth are the two primary factors influencing Australian unemployment (Gregory, 2000, Le and Miller, 2000, Thomson, 2000, Borland, 1997, Goodridge, Harding, and Lloyd, 1995.…”

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Asymmetric Unemployment Rate Dynamics in Australia

Bårdsen

Hurn²,

McHugh³

2012

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics &Amp; Econometrics

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The unemployment rate in Australia is modelled as an asymmetric and nonlinear function of aggregate demand, productivity, real interest rates, the replacement ratio, and the real exchange rate. If changes in unemployment are big, the management of of demand, real interest rates and the replacement ratio will be good policy instruments to start bringing it down. The model is developed by exploiting recent developments in automated model-selection procedures.

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Australia's Unemployment Problem

Cited by 14 publications

References 43 publications

Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labour Market Success

Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labour Market Success

People, Space and Place: a Multidimensional Analysis of Unemployment in Metropolitan Labour Markets

Asymmetric Unemployment Rate Dynamics in Australia

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