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Flexicurity: What is it? Can it Work Downunder?
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2010)
From the late seventies, neo-liberal economic prescriptions for labour market reform held sway across the English-speaking advanced economies. The neo-liberal view was that employment security came at the expense of labour ...
Symposium 2: Minimum Wage Setting under Fair Work Australia: Back to the Future?
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2010)
Fair Work Australia (FWA) recently handed down its first minimum wage decision - a $26 per week increase. Although the decision emanated from new legislation, which explicitly references fairness and living standards of ...
Symposium 1: Fair Work Australia's First Minimum Wage Decision: Context, Impact and Future
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2010)
The Work-Life Provisions of the Fair Work Act: A Compromise of Stakeholder Preference
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2010)
This paper adopts a stakeholder analysis approach to policy formulation to consider the Rudd Government's success in achieving its work-life balance goals through the Fair Work Act (FWA), the extent to which it consulted ...
Symposium 4: Australia's Other Two-Speed Economy: Gender, Employment and Earnings in the Slow Lane
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2010)
Talk of a 'two-speed economy' was prevalent in Australia in the first half of 2010. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry argued against a significant increase in the minimum wage on the basis that most minimum ...
Australian Labour Market Flows over the Business Cycle
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2011)
This paper analyses the behaviour of Australian labour market transition rates. Since the early 1980s, the job-finding rate has been significantly more volatile than the job-loss rate and it is strongly pro-cyclical. The ...
Symposium 7: The Fair Work Australia Minimum Wage Decision Viewed From Afar
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2010)
This paper attempts to put the minimum wage increase into an international context and in particular to focus on the special provisions relating to disabled workers. It is suggested that consideration be given to the ...
Symposium 6: The Annual Wage Review 2009-10 of the Minimum Wage Panel of Fair Work Australia
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2010)
Symposium 5: An American Perspective on the 2010 Increase in the Australian Minimum Wage
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2010)
Crossing the Great Divide: a Case Study of a Regional Nursing Labour Market in the Central West of New South Wales
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2010)
This study contributes to the labour market research into nurse shortage in an Australian regional context. It indicates that supply decisions are influenced by family circumstances, attachment to regional life and ...