AUSTRALIAN UNEMPLOYMENT: SOME EVIDENCE FROM INDUSTRY LABOUR DEMAND FUNCTIONS
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Unemployment and the Australian Labour Market
While in recent years the unemployment rate has fallen from its peak of over 11 per cent in the early 1990s, the current rate of unemployment – at just over 8 per cent, about the average for the past fifteen years – is still of concern for both economic and social reasons. From an economic perspective, unemployment represents the underutilisation of one of the economy's main resources, labour. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Economic Papers
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0004-900X,1467-8454
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8454.1983.tb00427.x