Dark corners in a bright economy: the lack of jobs for unskilled men

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dc.contributor.author Gregory, Robert G
dc.date.accessioned 2012-08-09T00:17:24Z
dc.date.available 2012-08-09T00:17:24Z
dc.date.issued 2012
dc.description.abstract This paper discusses the large reductions in full-time employment among unskilled Australian males that began in the 1970s and continued over the next three to four decades. Over this period, each recession led to large falls in the male full-time employment--population ratio, and during each economic recovery the employment ratio failed to move back to its previous levels. Unemployment fell during each output recovery, not in response to employment gains, but in response to large-scale withdrawals from the labour market into the welfare system. The loss of unskilled jobs for men has been associated with falling marriage rates and increasing use of the welfare system by single women. The paper concludes by briefly assessing some of the impacts of the new resource boom on these long-run labour market and welfare trends, and discusses the potential for different labour-market outcomes emerging across mineral and non-mineral Australian states. en
dc.identifier.citation Gregory, R.G., 2012. Dark corners in a bright economy: the lack of jobs for unskilled men. Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 2-25. en
dc.identifier.issn 0311-6336
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26232
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher National Institute of Labour Studies en
dc.subject Employment en
dc.subject Australia en
dc.subject Unskilled labour en
dc.subject Gender issues en
dc.title Dark corners in a bright economy: the lack of jobs for unskilled men en
dc.type Article en
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