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The Centre for Labour Market Research (CLMR), Curtin Business School

Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE)

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2009, Volume 12, Issue 1

5-20 Determinants of the Labour Force Status of Female Carers
by Matthew Gray & Ben Edwards [Downloadable!]
21-39 Comparing Disadvantage and Well-Being in Australian Families
by Peter Saunders & Anna Zhu [Downloadable!]
41-64 Child Social Exclusion: An Updated Index From the 2006 Census
by Justin McNamara & Ann Harding [Downloadable!]
65-87 Exploring the Work-Family Policies Mothers Say Would Help After the Birth of a Child
by Jennifer Renda & Jennifer Baxter [Downloadable!]
89-107 Paid and Unpaid Work in Australian Households: Trends in the Gender Division of Labour, 1986-2005
by Jenny Chesters & Janeen Baxter [Downloadable!]
108-131 A Sunburnt Country: The Economic and Financial Impact of Drought on Rural and Regional Families in Australia in an Era of Climate Change
by Ben Edwards & Matthew Gray & Boyd Hunter [Downloadable!]

2008, Volume 11, Issue 3

187-201 Adequate Employment, Underutilisation and Unemployment: an Analysis of Labour Force Outcomes for Australian Youth
by Scott Baum & William Mitchell
203-226 An analysis of the impact of tax and welfare reform measures on effective marginal tax rates in Australia 1982-2002
by Alfred Michael Dockery & Paul Flatau
227-247 Population Ageing and Structural Adjustment
by Tony Meagher & James Giesecke
249-255 A note on discounting and the social time preference rate
by John Creedy
257-276 Choosing the tax rate in a linear income tax structure
by John Creedy

2008, Volume 11, Issue 2

117-128 Labour Taxes and Work Hours in Australia
by Anton Hallam & Ernst Juerg Weber
129-147 Addiction to work: An Inelastic Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply Equals Long Hours of Work
by Donatella Cavagnoli
149-161 The Labour Force Participation of Young Mothers Versus Older Mothers
by Marcia Keegan & Michael Corliss
163-185 Economic Evaluation of the Training Opportunities Programme in New Zealand
by Geoff Perry & Tim Maloney

2008, Volume 11, Issue 1

7-25 Travail to No Avail? Working Poverty in Australia Since 2000
by Joan Rodgers & Douglas Robson
27-46 Low Pay, Compressed Schedules and High Work Intensity: A Study of Contract Cleaners in Australia
by Iain Campbell & Manu Peeters
47-70 Occupational Skill Level and Hazardous Exposures among Working Victorians
by Anthony LaMontagne & Deborah Vallance
71-96 Low Paid Jobs and Unemployment: Churning in the Australian Labour Market, 2001 to 2006
by Ian Watson
97-114 Improving Employment Retention and Advancement of Low-Paid Workers
by Daniel Perkins & Rosanna Scuttella

2007, Volume 10, Issue 4

205-225 Time-varying equilibrium rates of unemployment: an analysis with Australian data
by Robert Dixon & John Freebairn
227-252 Health status and labour force status of older working-age Australian men
by Lixin Cai & Guyonne Kalb
253-277 Relationship break-down and the economic welfare of Australian mothers and their children
by Matthew Gray & Bruce Chapman
279-294 Public sector workers' willingness to pay for education and training: a comparison
by Sue O'Keefe & Lin Crase
295-318 Health status and labour force status of older working-age Australian men
by Tim Maloney

2007, Volume 10, Issue 3

149-165 Time or money: impact of parental employment on time that 4 to 5 year olds spend in language building activities
by Jude Brown & Michael Bittman
167-184 Mutual obligation, unemployment and wellbeing
by Peter Saunders
185-202 The cumulative causation and the productivity commission’s framework for overcoming Indigenous disadvantage
by Boyd Hunter

2007, Volume 10, Issue 2

59-60 Introduction to the Special issue on Retirement incomes
by Siobhan Austen & Therese Jefferson
61-77 The 2006 Federal Budget: A Gender Analysis of the Superannuation Taxation Concessions
by Siobhan Austen & Rhonda Sharp
79-97 Population Ageing, Taxation, pensions and Health Costs
by Patricia Apps & Ray Rees
99-114 Time Use Among new mothers, the Economic Value of Unpaid Care work and gender aspects of superannuation tax concessions
by Julie Smith
115-127 Decision Making Clusters in Retirement Savings: Preliminary Findings
by Marilyn Clark-Murphy & Craig P. Speelman
129-145 Discussing Retirement: Insights from a Qualitative Research Project
by Therese Jefferson

2007, Volume 10, Issue 1

1-15 Policy Evaluation, welfare weights and value judgements: a Reminder
by John Creedy
17-37 Who are the low paid?
by Seamus McGuinness & John Freebairn
39-57 The effect of an alternative childcare subsidy on labour supply: a policy simulation
by Guyonne Kalb & Wang-Sheng Lee

2006, Volume 9, Issue 4

321-341 An Analysis of the Internal Migration of Indigenous and Non-indigenous Australians
by Nicholas Biddle & Boyd Hunter
343-370 Does Maternity Leave Encourage Higher birth Rates? An Analysis of the Australian Labour Market
by Leonora Risse
371-393 Personal and Job Characteristics Associated with Underemployment
by Roger Wilkins
395-416 Changes in the Labour Force Status of Lone and Couple Australian Mothers, 1983-2005
by Matthew Gray & Lixia Qu
417-445 Non-standard Work Schedules and Health Outcomes in Australia: Some Evidence from the HILDA Panel
by Aydogan Ulker

2006, Volume 9, Issue 3

257-268 A Cohort Analysis of the Private Rate of Return to Higher Education in Australia
by Anne Daly & Don Fleming
269-286 Unemployment Rate Dispersion in Melbourne: The ‘Regional’ Dimension
by Robert Dixon & Muhammad Mahmood
287-304 Union Power and Australia’s inflation Barrier, 1965:4 to 2004:3
by Ian McDonald & Jenny Lye
305-320 The Evolution of the Female Labour Force Participation Rate in Australia, 1984-1999
by Siobhan Austen (Author A) & Richard Seymour (Author B)

2006, Volume 9, Issue 2

99-123 The public-private sector earnings gap; in Australia: a quantile regression approach
by Elisa Birch
125-146 Trends in child care use and cost between 1999 and 2002
by Justine McNamara & Rebecca Cassells
147-171 Disadvantaged among Australian young mothers
by Bruce Bradbury
173-199 Does it pay for Indigenous youth to go to school? Variation in the predicted economic benefits of High School
by Nicholas Biddle
201-215 Measuring employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians
by Pauline Halchuck
217-237 Further explorations of the interactions between crime and Indigenous employment
by Boyd Hunter
239-255 Who Benefits from Growth? Disadvantaged workers from growing regions
by Bill Mitchell

2006, Volume 9, Issue 1

5-16 Some Labour Market Measurement Issues for Indigenous Australians
by Matthew Gray & Bruce Chapman
17-32 Measuring the ‘real’ indigenous economy in remote Australia using NATSISS 2002
by Jon Altman & Geoff Buchanan
33-50 Some Methodological Issues for the 2002 NATSISS
by Nicholas Biddle & Boyd H. Hunter
51-64 Further Skirmishes in the Poverty War: Income Status and financial stress among Indigenous Australians
by Boyd Hunter
65-81 Recent Evidence on Health and Employment Status for Indigenous Australia
by Russell Ross
83-93 Indigenous employment and the hard policy choices
by Bob Gregory

2005, Volume 8, Issue 4

291-308 Is Computing Different? Comparing the Determinants of Computer-Related and Other Subject Matter Training in New Zealand
by Bridget Daldy & John Gibson
309-329 Straight to Work or a Traineeship: A comparison of Two Pathways
by Michael Dockery & Thorsten Stromback
331-350 Understanding the Education Choices of Public Sector Employees: The Relative Importance of Time and Money
by Sue O’Keefe & Lin Crase
351-364 Labour Market Responses to the Abolition of Compulsory Superannuation
by Louise Carter

2005, Volume 8, Issue 3

227-243 Further Evidence on Disaggregated Wage Curves: The Case of Spain
by Esteban Sanroma & Raul Ramos
245-260 A Two-Sector Growth Model with Labour Supply
by Wei-Bin Zhang
261-275 The Distribution of Household Income in Marriage
by Hikaru Ogawa
277-290 Aggregating Labour Supply and Feedback Effects in Microsimulation
by John Creedy & Alan Duncan

2005, Volume 8, Issue 2

111-119 Introduction and Perspective – Symposium Negotiating the Life Course
by Trevor Breuch & Edith Gray
121-143 Causes of Overeducation in the Australian Labour Market
by Ingrid Linsley
145-162 Adapting to the Lifecourse? Evaluating Men and Women’s Working-Time Preferences
by Brigid van Wanrooy
163-179 Marriage and Money: Variations across the Earnings Distribution
by Mark Western & Belinda Hewitt
181-201 The insider-outsider theory: some evidence of Australia
by Michael Dobbie
203-225 Child Care and Female Decisions
by Stephen Whelan & Anu Rammohan

2005, Volume 8, Issue 1

1-24 Trend Analysis of Union Membership
by David Peetz
25-42 An Examination of Net Flows in the Australian Labour Market
by Robert Dixon & John Freebairn
43-71 The Decline of Seasonality in Australian Quarterly Aggregate Strike Statistics: 1983-2003
by L.J. Perry & Patrick J. Wilson
73-110 Behavioural Microsimulation Modelling for Tax Policy Analysis in Australia: Experience and Prospects
by John Creedy & Guyonne Kalb

2004, Volume 7, Issue 4

413-438 Economists and Australian Wage policy Before World War II
by Keith Hancock
439-457 Strike Activity Under Enterprise Bargaining: Economics or Politics?
by Ann Hodgkinson
459-480 Forecasting Australian Unemployment Rates using Spectral Analysis
by Patrick J. Wilson & L.J. Perry
481-500 Year 12 Completion and Retention in Australia in the 1990s
by Chris Ryan & Louise Watson
501-513 The Incidence of Long-term Unemployment in Australia 1978-2003
by Robert Dixon & G.C. Lim
515-524 Can Labour-Savings, Capital-Intensive Production Techniques Reduce Unemployment Rates in Developing Countries? Evidence From Malaysia
by Ranald J. Taylor

2004, Volume 7, Issue 3

309-327 Gender Differences in Occupation of Employment within Australia
by Alison Preston & Gillian Whitehouse
329-353 How Segregated are Australian Workplaces? Evidence from the Australian Industrial Workplace Relations Survey
by Jane Harrison
355-374 Occupational Segregation on the Basis of Gender: the Role of Entry-level Jobs
by Paul W. Miller & Yew Liang Lee
374-394 The Labour Market Conditions, Applications and Grants of disability support Pension (DSP) in Australia
by Lixin Cai & Robert G. Gregory
395-410 Labour Market Conditions, Applications and Grants of disability support Pension (DSP) in Australia
by Peter Saunders & Judith Brown

2004, Volume 7, Issue 2

109-124 Introduction and Appendix: The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey Special Issue: Case Studies in Labour Economics
by Bruce Chapman & Paul Flatau
125-150 New Estimates of Mothers’ Forgone Earnings Using HILDA Data
by Trevor Breusch & Edith Gray
151-174 Mental Health Problems, disability and income support receipt: a replication and extension using the HILDA Survey
by Peter Butterworth & Timothy Crosier
175-198 Looking inside the unemployment spell
by Alfred Michael Dockery
199-229 On the risk of unemployment: a comparative assessment of the labour market success of migrants in Australia
by Prem J. Thapa
231-254 Hourly Wages of full-time and part-time employees in Australia
by Joan R. Rodgers
255-273 Long work hours and the wellbeing of fathers and their families
by Matthew Gray & Lixia Qu
275-292 Paid Employment participation After Leaving Full-Time Education the First time
by Edmond Hsu & Justine Gibbings
293-308 Sample Attrition in the HILDA Survey
by Nicole Watson & Mark Wooden

2004, Volume 7, Issue 1

1-12 Introduction: The Use of Simulation Models in Policy Analysis
by Guyonne Kalb
13-37 Regional Unemployment Disparities: Can Fiscal Policy Help?
by Nicolaas Groenewold & A.J. Hagger
39-51 Forecasting the Economic impact of an industrial stoppage using a dynamic, computable general equilibrium model
by Glyn Wittwer & Peter Dixon
53-69 Financial incentives to work for married mothers under a new tax system
by Matthew Toohey & Gillian Beer
71-88 Reweighting Household Surveys for Tax Microsimulation Modelling: An Application to the New Zealand Household Economic Survey
by John Creedy & Ivan Tuckwell
89-108 The Role of The Unit of Analysisin Tax Policy Return Evaluations of Inequality and Social Welfare
by John Creedy & Rosanna Scutella

2003, Volume 6, Issue 4

497-518 Women’s Work in Australia: Trends, Issues and Prospects
by Alison Preston & John Burgess
519-536 ‘I Mean, You Want to be There for Them’: Young Australian Professionals Negotiating Careers in a Gendered World
by Rosslyn Reed & Margaret Allen
537-557 Training and Career Experiences of Women Part-time Workers in a Finance Sector Organisation: Persistent Remnant of the ‘Reserve Army’?
by Jenny Whittard
559-577 The Overlap of the Federal Sex Discrimination and Industrial Relations Jurisdictions: Intersections and Demarcations in Conciliation
by Sara Charlesworth
579-596 Women, Wages and Industrial Agreements
by Gillian Whitehouse & Betty Frino
597-617 Determinants of Australian Mothers’ Employment: An Analysis of Lone and Couple Mothers
by Matthew Gray & Lixia Qu
619-630 The Labour Force Participation of Married Mothers: A Tale of International Catch-Up
by Karen Mumford & Antonia Parera-Nicolau
631-655 The Evolution of Occupational Gender Segregation in Australia: Measurement and Interpretation
by Martin Watts

2003, Volume 6, Issue 3

371-382 Are the Determinants of Intergenerational Welfare Dependency Gender-specific?
by Gail Pacheco & Tim Maloney
383-408 The Irrelevance of Trade union Recognition? A Comparison of Two Matched Companies
by William Brown & Paul Ryan
409-433 Regional Labour Market Adjustment to Competition Policy Reforms: A Dynamic CGE Framework for Assessment
by James Giesecke & John R. Madden
435-451 Determinants of current job tenure: a cross country comparison
by Karen Mumford & Peter N. Smith
453-472 Employment changes and job openings for new entrants in nursing and caring occupations in Australia
by Chandra Shah & Michael Long
473-496 The Rise of the CDEP Scheme and Changing Factors Underlying Indigenous Male Employment
by Boyd H. Hunter

2003, Volume 6, Issue 2

207-226 False promise or false premise? Evaluating the job network
by William Mitchell & Sally Cowling
227-240 Reviewing the model behind the job network
by John Burgess
241-251 Evaluating the Structure and Performance of the Job Network
by J.W. Nevile & Ann Nevile
253-275 New Public Management, the Job Network and Non-Profit Strategy
by Gaby Ramia & Terry Carney
277-291 Street Level Leniency or Unjust Inconsistency? An Examination of Brach Recommendation Decision Making in a for profit Job Network Agency
by Christine Bigby & William Files
293-315 The Psychology, Ethics and Social Relations of Unemployment
by Greg Marston & Catherine McDonald
317-329 Non-economic perspectives on the job network
by Tony Eardley
331-355 Towards a Quasi-Market in Reintegration Services: first assessment of the Dutch experience
by Ludo Struyven & Geert Steurs
357-370 Points of Comparison between Australia’s Job Network and the Dutch Market for Reintegration Services
by David Grubb

2003, Volume 6, Issue 1

1-4 Are Nominal Wages Downwardly Rigid? New Australian Evidence on an Old Quarrel
by Paul Flatau
5-24 Nominal Wage Rigidity in Australia
by Jacqueline Dwyer
25-36 Nominal Wage Rigidity in The Australian Labour Market: Evidence from household Data
by Andrew Charlton
37-64 Why are recessions as deep as they are? The behaviour over time of the outflow from unemployment: a new perspective
by Robert Dixon & John Freebairn
65-82 Long-Run Shifts of the Beveridge Curve and the Frictional Unemployment Rate in Australia
by Nicolaas Groenewold
83-115 Immigrant and Native-born Earnings Distributions in Australia: 1982-1996
by Roger Wilkins
117-134 A Cost Function for Higher Education in Australia
by Rebecca.Valenzuela & John Creedy
135-152 The New Economy and Demand for Skills
by Ross Kelly & Philip E.T. Lewis
153-176 Gender Differences in the Likelihood of Low Pay in Australia
by Siobhan Austen
177-193 Are Part-Time Workers poor?
by Joan R. Rodgers

2002, Volume 5, Issue 4

431-442 Introduction
by Bruce Chapman & Bob Gregory
457-470 Welfare Reform in the US: Early Evidence of Impacts
by Barbara Wolfe
471-487 Getting Welfare to Work: Lessons from Britain’s ‘New Deal’
by Dan Finn
489-505 Are We Understanding the Impact of Economic Conditions on Welfare Rolls?
by Dan Black & Terra McKinnish
507-530 The Director and Indirect Effects of Unemployment on Poverty and Inequality
by Peter Saunders
531-547 Welfare Reform and jobless households in Australia
by Peter Dawkins
549-568 Why an Earned income tax credit program is a mistake for Australia
by Patricia Apps
569-585 Fertility, Dependency and Social Security
by Patricia Apps & Ray Rees

2002, Volume 5, Issue 3

303-317 Competition and Openness: to What Extent Do they Explain the decline in US Strike Activity?
by Alan Morris
319-334 Disabilities and labour Market earnings in Australia
by Richard Brazenor
335-350 Imputing income using occupational attainment
by Paul Miller & Yew Liang Lee
351-371 The New Enterprise incentive Scheme: an evaluation and a test of the job network
by A.M. Dockery
373-395 Industrial Relations in Workplaces Employing Indigenous Australians
by Boyd Hunter & A.E. Hawke
397-417 The HILDA Survey; What’s in it for Economists?
by Mark Wooden
419-430 Changes over time in male participation rates in Australia
by Robert Dixon

2002, Volume 5, Issue 2

101-110 Creating Jobs – The Role of Government: Introduction
by Bruce Chapman & Peter Kenyon
111-113 Creating Jobs – the Role of Government: Conference opening address
by Ken Henry
115-142 Can Supply-Side policies Reduce unemployment? Lessons from North America
by Gary Burtless
143-163 International Shocks and the Role of Domestic Policy in Australia
by Mardi Dungey
165-170 Comment on International Shocks and the Role of Domestic Policy in Australia
by David Gruen
171-173 Comment on International Shocks and the Role of Domestic Policy in Australia
by Peter M. Summers
175-193 Long-Term Unemployment and Work Deprived individuals: issues and Policies
by A.M. Dockery & Elizabeth Webster
195-198 Comments on ‘Long-term unemployment in Australia
by Denise Doiron
199-202 Comment on Long-term unemployment in Australia
by Gareth Leeves
203-230 The ‘Five Economists’ Plan: the original idea and further developments
by Peter Dawkins
231-237 Why an EITC Program should be rejected Comments on ‘The Five Economists’ Plan: the original idea and further developments’
by Patricia Apps
239-242 Comments on ‘The Five Economists’ Plan: the original idea and further developments’
by Jeff Borland
243-259 Fiscal policy and the job guarantee
by William F. Mitchell & Warren B. Mosler
261-263 Comment on ‘Fiscal Policy and the Job Guarantee’
by Tony Aspromourgos
265-269 Comment on ‘Fiscal Policy and the Job Guarantee’
by P.N. (Raja) Junankar
271-278 Its Full-Time Jobs That Matter - Round Table Discussion
by R.G. Gregory
279-287 What Do We Know About Job Creation - Round Table Discussion
by Philip E.T. Lewis
289-292 Creating Jobs: The Role of an Activist Government – Round Table Discussion
by Grant Belchamber

2002, Volume 5, Issue 1

1-21 Australian gross flows data: the labour force survey and the size of the population represented by the matched sample
by Robert Dixon & G.C. Lim
23-43 Working time patterns in New Zealand in the 1990s
by Sylvia Dixon
45-60 Enterprise Bargaining, Working time and police
by Jenny Fleming & David Peetz
61-76 Neighbourhoods and youth employment outcomes in Melbourne
by Ross Kelly & Phil Lewis
77-100 Factors influencing participation in post-secondary education and training ion Australia: 1989 to 1997
by Sandra Roussel

2000-2001, Volume 4, Issue 4

232-247 The Accord and strikes: an International perspective
by L.J. Perry & Patrick J. Wilson
248-269 An empirical examination of the impact of public enterprise reform on the South African labour market
by Brian Dollery & Booi Themeli
270-278 Quadratic utility, labour supply and the welfare effects of tax changes
by John Creedy
280-295 Worker turnover: hire, separations and employment growth a the employer level
by Gareth Leeves
296-316 Wage Functions for Demographic Groups in Australia
by John Creedy & Alan S. Duncan
318-334 Trade liberalisation and the Demand for Skilled Labour in Australia
by G. Meagher & P.D. Adams
336-355 Withdrawal from employment of older Finnish workers
by Pasi Huovinen & Hannu Piekkola

2000-2001, Volume 4, Issue 3

134-151 Labour supply, welfare and the earnings distribution
by John Creedy
152-172 Labour supply estimates for married women in Australia
by Rosanna Scutella
174-191 Unemployment traps and age-earnings profiles: estimates for Australia in 2000
by Bruce Chapman & John Quiggin
192-205 The labour market plans of parenting payment recipients: information from a randomised social experiment
by Garry F. Barrett & Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
206-223 Older male labour force participation: the role of social security and hidden unemployment
by Martin J. O’Brien
224-231 Labour Market Effects of Defined Contribution Plans: An International Survey
by John A. Turner

2000-2001, Volume 4, Issue 2

65-76 Indigenous Jobs Growth and Unemployment, 1996-2006: The Role of CDEP Scheme Jobs
by Boyd Hunter & John Taylor
77-88 CDEP as a Stepping Stone to Employment: the Port Augusta Case
by Matthew Gray & Elaine Thacker
89-98 Indigenous Work-for-the-Dole and Mutual Obligation: Prospects for Employment Generation in Remote Australia
by Jon Altman
99-110 Indigenous Families, Welfare and Work: Survey Results from Two Community Case Studies
by Diane Smith & Anne Daly
111-133 Indigenous labour force status re-visited: factors associated with the discouraged worker phenomenon
by Boyd Hunter & Matthew Gray

2000-2001, Volume 4, Issue 1

3-17 The Profile of Labour Force Discouragement in Australia
by Liam Lenten
19-39 Management and Industrial Relations Practices and Outcomes in Australian Workplaces
by Joanne Loundes
41-55 Forecasting Australian Unemployment Rates
by Max Stevenson & Maurice Peat

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