Labour market outcomes for Indigenous Australians

Gray, Matthew; Howlett, Monica; Hunter, Boyd

doi:10.1177/1035304614545943

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“…Employer and employer association efforts to engage with Indigenous Australians and improve their employment prospects are also gathering momentum, within a broader picture of recently improving levels of private sector Indigenous employment (Gray et al, 2014). Strategies have focused on direct Indigenous employment, purchasing products and services from Indigenous businesses, joint ventures, investments in education and contributions of pro bono support to strengthen and build capacity in Indigenous communities and organisations.…”

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Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2014

Sheldon

Thornthwaite

2015

Journal of Industrial Relations

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This article examines the industrial relations issues at the forefront of employer and employer association attention in Australia in 2014. We examine their ambitions for legislative change and frustrations with parliamentary gridlock, as well as their engagement in the four-year Modern Award Review, the annual Minimum Wage Review, and policy discussion on 457 Visas. As well, we look at the involvement of employers and their associations in several positive social policy agendas, and developments in the employer association world during the year. As 2014 draws to a close without their long-sought modifications to the Fair Work system, the public policy rhetoric of employers and their associations is shifting once again towards the advocacy of larger-scale industrial relations change.

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Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2014

Sheldon

Thornthwaite

2015

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…As a group, Indigenous women fare very poorly, facing multiple barriers to good employment outcomes. In 2011 the employment-to-population ratio for Indigenous women was 41% compared with 67% for non-Indigenous women (Gray et al., 2014: 501). 1 High rates of poverty, poor health and disability contribute to these employment gaps and, in regional and remote areas, these issues are compounded by lack of access to both private and public sector labour markets and to post-school training and education opportunities (ABS, 2014b; Gray et al., 2014; Karmel et al., 2014).…”

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“…In 2011 the employment-to-population ratio for Indigenous women was 41% compared with 67% for non-Indigenous women (Gray et al., 2014: 501). 1 High rates of poverty, poor health and disability contribute to these employment gaps and, in regional and remote areas, these issues are compounded by lack of access to both private and public sector labour markets and to post-school training and education opportunities (ABS, 2014b; Gray et al., 2014; Karmel et al., 2014). Migrant women’s employment-to-population ratio is also low at 62.3% compared with a ratio of 69.2% for Australian-born women (Cobb-Clark et al., 2012: 29).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2014

Charlesworth

Macdonald

2015

Journal of Industrial Relations

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This paper provides a review of Australian policy and regulatory developments in 2014 that influence the working conditions of over 5.4 million women. After an assessment of progress against key gender equality indicators, we focus on two key components of the current gender equality ‘architecture’: employment regulation and policy and the work and care infrastructure that supports working women and gender equality more broadly. We review key developments in regulation providing minimum labour standards and anti-discrimination protections for women workers. We then turn to recent developments in the work and care infrastructure, including childcare, paid parental leave and equal pay. Despite having better regulatory and institutional arrangements than exist in some other developed economies, we conclude that without an explicit national gender equality policy framework, progress towards decent work for Australian working women is likely to be incremental at best.

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“… 8. Recent articles on this point include Gray et al (2014), Pocock (2016), Campbell and Price (2016), Stanford (2017), Lewchuk (2017), Macdonald et al (2018), Clibborn and Wright (2018) and Chesters and Cuervo (2019). …”

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Wellbeing economics in public policy: A distinctive Australasian contribution?

Dalziel

2019

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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The ‘Wellbeing Budget’ presented to the New Zealand Parliament in 2019 was widely described as a world-first. This article explores the possibility of a distinctive Australasian contribution to our understanding of wellbeing economics in public policy. The introduction section presents an analytical wellbeing framework showing how human actions draw on services provided by the country’s capital stocks to create and sustain personal and communal wellbeing. The second section chronicles some landmark policy initiatives in Australia and New Zealand for understanding and monitoring wellbeing, culminating in the Wellbeing Budget. The third section highlights four areas for further development: (1) the role of family wellbeing in intergenerational wellbeing, (2) the role of cultural capital in providing foundations for future wellbeing, (3) the role of Indigenous worldviews in enriching understandings of wellbeing and (4) the role of market enterprise in expanding capabilities for wellbeing. These are all areas where Australasian researchers have demonstrated expertise. JEL Codes: I31, I38, B54

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Labour market outcomes for Indigenous Australians

Abstract: Recent research has identified a substantial increase in Indigenous mainstream employment since the mid-1990s, but there has been relatively little regional analysis of such employment.

Cited by 6 publications

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Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2014

Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2014

Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2014

Wellbeing economics in public policy: A distinctive Australasian contribution?

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