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Employment, The Labour Force and Unemployment in Australia: A Disagregegated Approach
Author(s) -
Peters R. W.,
Petridis A.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8462.1985.tb00304.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , economics , labour economics , discouraged worker , population , demographic economics , unemployment rate , sociology , economic growth , demography
This article presents statistical analysis of the distributional aspects of labour market developments in the Australian economy from 1966 to 1985. The focus is on the adjustment of the labour force to changes in employment opportunities. Two sets of data for selected age/sex/marital groups are utilised in the analysis: regressions to test for differences in the sensitivity of labour force participation to employment opportunities and a series of tables documenting population adjusted changes in employment and the labour force. The aggregate relationship between employment changes and labour force changes (and hence changes in unemployment) is explained by the disaggregated data.