Labour Market
An analysis of Indigenous labour market outcomes
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Halving the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians over the decade beginning in 2008 is one of six COAG targets set to address Indigenous disadvantage. To understand better the labour market outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and the human and social capital factors influencing those outcomes, the Productivity Commission has undertaken an analysis using the 2006 Census. The labour market indicators studied are participation, unemployment, hours worked and total personal income.
Indigenous Australians in the Contemporary Labour Market
Topical Issue 3 / 2004
January 2004 - Indigenous Australians in the Contemporary Labour Market
This ABS monograph by CAEPR researcher Boyd Hunter is published under the Australian Census Analytic Program series. It both extends the understanding of important socioeconomic trends since 1971 and demonstrates the somewhat under-utilised power of census data to illuminate the social and policy agenda for Indigenous Australians.
Labour Market Programs and Indigenous Australians
Topical Issue 6 / 2003
March 2003 - Labour Market Programs and Indigenous Australians
This issue brief examines the appropriateness, quality and effectiveness of labour market programs for Indigenous Australians by considering administrative data on program participation in conjunction with data collected in a longitudinal survey conducted by the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business.
Change in the relative occupational status of Indigenous workers, 1986-91
Issue Brief 14 / 1997
Employment strategies aimed at raising the economic status of Indigenous people are also implicitly committed to raising occupational status. This is because of the link between poor economic outcomes for Indigenous people and their over-concentration in unskilled jobs.
The evaluation of labour market programs: some issues for Aboriginal policy formulation from experience in the United States
Discussion Paper 23 / 1992
Abstract:
This paper considers some of the major issues involved in evaluating labour market programs for Aboriginal people in the light of the extensive United States (US) literature on the topic. The paper focuses on the US experience under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), with some reference to the Training for Aboriginals Program (TAP) in Australia. It first considers the need for clearly stated objectives in the formulation of labour market programs.
The position of older Aboriginal people in the labour market
Discussion Paper 43 / 1993
Abstract:
The focus of this paper is on the position of Aboriginal people over the age of 50 years in the labour market, as recorded in the 1986 Population Census. This group accounted for a smaller proportion of the adult Aboriginal population than this age group did in the Australian population in general. Aboriginal men and women in this age group were much less likely to be in paid employment than other Australians.
Determining the labour force status of Aboriginal people using a multinomial logit model
Discussion Paper 44 / 1993
Abstract:
It is well documented that Aboriginal people are less likely to be in employment and more likely to be unemployed or not in the labour force than are other Australians. The aim of this paper is to consider some of the reasons for these differences in the statistical framework of a multinomial regression equation.
Indigenous Australians and the labour market: issues for the union movement in the 1990s
Discussion Paper 45 / 1993
Abstract:
The Aboriginal Employment Development Policy (AEDP) aims to achieve economic equality between Indigenous and other Australians by the year 2000 via three goals: employment equality, income equality and commensurate levels of welfare dependence. Achieving employment equality, in statistical terms, for working-aged Indigenous Australians will require an increase in the employment rate from 27 percent of those aged 15-64 years to 63 percent.
Indigenous participation in labour market and training programs
Discussion Paper 108 / 1996
Abstract:
Despite the fact that large numbers of Indigenous people participate in labour market and training programs each year, little information has hitherto been publicly available regarding their characteristics and the nature of program involvement.
Indigenous labour force status to the year 2000: Estimated impacts of recent Budget cuts
Discussion Paper 119 / 1996
Abstract:
The simulated estimates of Indigenous labour force status used in this paper are based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics projections of Indigenous population to the year 2000 and several reasonable assumptions about the growth in demand for Indigenous labour.
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