Labour underutilisation in metropolitan labour markets in Australia: individual characteristics, personal circumstances and local labour markets
Author(s)
Baum, Scott
Bill, Anthea
Mitchell, William
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2008
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There has been a growing awareness that the issue of labour market disadvantage is substantially greater than merely considering unemployment and the ability to fi nd a job. There is an increasing literature that points to the advantages of considering a broader concept which accounts not only for those people who are traditionally unemployed, but also for individuals who are underemployed and those who are sub-unemployed or discouraged workers. Taking multidimensional survey and census data for Australian metropolitan regions, this paper applies a broad employability framework to an understanding of labour underutilisation ...
View more >There has been a growing awareness that the issue of labour market disadvantage is substantially greater than merely considering unemployment and the ability to fi nd a job. There is an increasing literature that points to the advantages of considering a broader concept which accounts not only for those people who are traditionally unemployed, but also for individuals who are underemployed and those who are sub-unemployed or discouraged workers. Taking multidimensional survey and census data for Australian metropolitan regions, this paper applies a broad employability framework to an understanding of labour underutilisation which presents the risk of underutilisation as a function of individual characteristics, personal circumstances and the impact of local labour market characteristics. The analysis fi nds that the risk of labour underutilisation is associated with a range of individual characteristics and personal circumstances together with the characteristics of the metropolitan local labour market.
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View more >There has been a growing awareness that the issue of labour market disadvantage is substantially greater than merely considering unemployment and the ability to fi nd a job. There is an increasing literature that points to the advantages of considering a broader concept which accounts not only for those people who are traditionally unemployed, but also for individuals who are underemployed and those who are sub-unemployed or discouraged workers. Taking multidimensional survey and census data for Australian metropolitan regions, this paper applies a broad employability framework to an understanding of labour underutilisation which presents the risk of underutilisation as a function of individual characteristics, personal circumstances and the impact of local labour market characteristics. The analysis fi nds that the risk of labour underutilisation is associated with a range of individual characteristics and personal circumstances together with the characteristics of the metropolitan local labour market.
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Journal Title
Urban Studies
Volume
45
Issue
5-6
Subject
Urban and regional planning
Applied economics
Human geography