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The Youth Labour Market in Australia

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  • PAUL MILLER
  • PAUL VOLKER

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This paper uses unit record data from the 1985 Australian Longitudinal Survey to review the major features of the youth labour market. It is shown that education plays an important role in determining the incidence of unemployment, wages, hours of work and access to training opportunities. Analyses of labour market dynamics indicates that the probability of leaving unemployment falls off substantially as the duration of the unemployment spell increases. A major conclusion of the paper is that the longer term unemployed appear to be segmented from other labour market participants. An implication of this finding is that there b very little which the longer term unemployed can do at the margin to influence their success other than adopt the most productive method of job search.

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  • Paul Miller & Paul Volker, 1987. "The Youth Labour Market in Australia," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 63(3), pages 203-219, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:63:y:1987:i:3:p:203-219
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1987.tb00652.x
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