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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction in Australia
Author(s) -
Mitchell William,
Juniper James,
Myers Jenny
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2006.tb00010.x
Subject(s) - job creation , earnings , context (archaeology) , government (linguistics) , legislation , industrial relations , business cycle , project commissioning , work (physics) , labour economics , duration (music) , publishing , economics , business , management , accounting , engineering , political science , macroeconomics , geography , mechanical engineering , art , linguistics , philosophy , literature , archaeology , law
This paper develops measures of job creation and job destruction (JC&D) based on the methodology initially developed by Davis and Haltiwanger (1990) and using industry employment data from the ABS Survey of Employment and Earnings (SEE), which is available on a quarterly basis between August 1983 and December 2001. It specifically examines the interaction of part‐time and full‐time employment with JC&D processes over the business cycle. Econometric analysis has been conducted to determine the time series properties of cyclical sensitivity and asymmetry. These findings are considered in the context of the likely consequences of the Howard government's Work Choices legislation.