What Are the Main Changes Occuring in the Australian Labour Market? What Are the Main Causes of These Trands? What Effect Are These Changes Having on the Nature of Employment in the Australian Economy?

This report will show an overview of the current state of the Australian economy and its management by the Federal government through examining economic indicators such as economic growth (GDP), unemployment, inflation and trade.

Analyse the causes of unemployment, its effects on the Australian economy and how they are addressed through use of macroeconomic policies.

In Australia there is a consensus that think that the unemployed don’t want to work and are not willing to find work; this claiming that they are lazy and conning the government for benefits (if they receive them). However, not all unemployed actually enjoy being without a job to survive and struggle with not having enough job opportunities, not being able to work due to lack of qualifications and not willing to take a job that will lead them to deficit (Csoba, 2010). Looking at it from a conflict theorist’s point of view it is people who have the money and the power that generate these limitations that unemployed members of society face. For

Individuals lost their job not because of their own faults if not it’s due to the economy downturn. “If, so unemployment is best understood as a public issue rather than a personal trouble” (Sociological Perspective on Social Problems,

Due to the dynamic nature of the Australian labour market, we are able to respond to technological, economic, demographic and social changes that affect demand and supply of labour, at both a macroeconomic and microeconomic level. However the Australian labour market is not perfectly competitive as change in the demand and supply of labour through wage and employment levels in the many industries and occupations are not always responded perfectly. Thus, there are labour market institutions that intervene within the labour market to create changes and the two main institutions addressed in this report are the unions and the government.

However, life has changed, globalization and feminism have had a huge impact on the work environment all around the world. Technology has also made many jobs easier, yet very, very similar. Because of these changes, unemployment has become an issue all around the globe. The government views the unemployment situation as an individual problem.  From the government’s perspective, unemployment is due to the lack of training of the individual.  However, because

In today’s society our traditional work patterns are changing rapidly. There are structural changes that affects our Australian society. The demographics in our economy is changing. The nature of work and the patterns of Australians’ working lives are changing. It is argued that changes in work patterns is to boost productivity, provide flexibility for workers, employers, businesses and enterprises that forms our Australian economy and to reduce labour costs.

Gender inequality has been a concern in Australia and other parts of the world for many years, although it has been changing through the years. Australia has progressed when it comes to women and work; we are seeing the largest number ever of female in the workforce. Areas that once were dominated by men, have undergone changes due to the invasion of women, currently we can notice women, in almost all kind of jobs that were performed only by males in the past. Women are still not valued as equal as a men, but discriminated with many barriers to overcome. Things have been developed, modernized, upgraded, however females still suffer inequality in the workforce against male gender. The discrepancy is more visible regards to remuneration and occupation areas. Women begin to reach the top of the organization chart. For this achievement, they have the incentive of Government for example to reduce the gap existing between genders in the workforce, however, to clarify all this problem, we must also understand which factors are responsible to this controversy going through all those years. In order to comprehend this phenomenon, it was proposed as a problem of this essay, particularly in Australia; establish the existence of gender inequalities in the workforce, how it has been reproduced, and determines what has been done to address the conflict.

Over the past 20 years, Australia labour market has faced many changes. Changes in the quality of labour supply and participation; labour utilisation; patterns of employment growth across states; the features of jobs; and earnings across states of Australia. (Wilkins & Wooden, 2014) Between the periods of 1993-2013, the labour market in Australia was in a period that can logically be thought off as one of strong labour market presentation. Workers, employment and earnings all went up over most of this period. During said period, measures of job insecurity and work intensity weakened and in some cases altered. (Wilkins & Wooden, 2014) When it came to labour demand, those who were educated and/or had a variety of skill were in demand. An article

The recovery from the 2008/09 recessions though weak has seen increases in headline employment, implying that the labour market recovery is quite impressive and unanticipated considering the slower recovery in output. Trends in underemployment, self-employment, youth-unemployment (caused by displacement effect ) and insecure forms of working (zero-hour contracts1) have been obscured by headline statistic (Boyd, 2014). This is so because employers rather than lay-off workers decide to fall wages and/or cut working hours (labour hoarding1), thereby resulting in deteriorating employment quality and decreased economic security of jobs. This culminates in underemployment, leaving unemployment relatively constant with falling

The study demonstrates the additional learning of the subject related to the Australian society and the changing dynamics of the world. The study analyzes the unemployment in Australia and the pertinent social policies with complete description and analysis of the policy.

Because most people rely on income generated by “working” to maintain their standard of living, the loss of employment often directly threatens to reduce that standard of living. The purpose of this study is to explore the definition and cause of unemployment, its’ cost, and how it is important

The current level of unemployment in New Zealand is particularly in the younger age groups, both low and high educated means that there is a large pool

Unemployment is the condition and extent of individuals out of work within an economy, measured by the “official” unemployment rate (U-5). This measure is the number of unemployed workers divided by the total civilian labor force. As of June the “official” unemployment rate stands at 9.2%. What is rarely reported, and even more ominous, is the underemployment rate. This rate includes two groups that are not considered in the official unemployment rate: discouraged and part-time workers (U.S. Congress, 1986, p. 12). As of June 2011 the U-6 rate stands at 16.2%. There is evidence that underemployment is pervasive in the United

Empirical research aims to decompose causes of unemployment into those that changed equilibrium and those that caused demand-deficient unemployment. A potential explanation of a rise in the equilibrium unemployment is a rise in the generosity of unemployment benefit relative to wages in work. Therefore people spend longer periods of time unemployed in search for the ‘right’ job, thus leading to a rise in equilibrium unemployment. (Begg, 2008, p. 530)