Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE)

2000 - 2024

From Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School
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Understanding how the Australian labour market works, with examples from the COVID-19 era - A talk to the 2025 Australian Labour Market Research Workshop pp. 118-142: Jeff Borland
Can we predict the effects of artificial intelligence and virtual care on the health labour market? pp. 143-160: Stephen J. Robson, Martin Hensher and Jeffrey C. Looi
Unemployment entry, exit and Okun’s law: An analysis with Australian data pp. 161-181: Robert Dixon

Using longitudinal surveys to discuss labour force stability: A New Zealand case study pp. 1-26: Alexandra Ferguson
Literacy and numeracy skills and life-course outcomes: Evidence from PIAAC and linked administrative data pp. 27-72: Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco and Thomas Schober
Improving Indigenous employment or entrenching labour market segregation? Using Artificial Intelligence and online job ads to evaluate employers’ Indigenous recruitment strategies pp. 73-100: Claire M. Mason, Haohui Chen, Shanae M. Burns, Scott Philip, Louisa Warren, Taylor Bamin, Cassandra Diamond and Ian Watson
How efficient is the Australian labour market? Analysing job matching efficiency for regions, occupations and industries pp. 101-117: Peter Lake, Samuel Shamiri, Kishor Sharma and Adam Bialowas

The value of policy relevant research in education, training, jobs and skills pp. 114-131: Peter Dawkins
Characteristics of male-breadwinner, female-breadwinner and equal-earner households in Australia: The role of couple-level human capital pp. 132-162: Ruth Steinbring, Francesco Perales, Janeen Baxter and Jack Lam
The contented Australian female worker: Paradox lost, paradox found pp. 163-201: Alfred Dockery

How uncompetitive markets hurt workers pp. 1-21: Andrew Leigh
Relocation choices of Australian General Practitioners pp. 22-50: Junran Cao and Anu Rammohan
Women’s work: myth or reality? Occupational feminisation and women’s job satisfaction in Australia pp. 51-83: Sandra Buchler and Alfred Dockery
How Australia's employment services system fails jobseekers: Insights from self-determination theory pp. 84-113: Cheryl Sykes

Labour Supply and Policy pp. 111-126: Jeff Borland
Financial fragility, financial literacy and the early withdrawal of retirement savings during COVID-19 pp. 127-147: Alison Preston
Union wage effects in Australia in a period of declining union power: The role of endowments and returns to endowments pp. 148-170: Daehoon Nahm, Michael Dobbie and Craig MacMillan
Mapping gender-bias in the Australian health and care industry: A case study pp. 171-192: Linda Isherwood, Megan Moskos and Zoei Sutton
A simple model of working from home pp. 193-214: Mabel Andalon and Matthew Jones

Back to the future: coercive conditionality in the jobactive era pp. 1-24: Simone Casey
Agglomeration Economies and the Urban Wage Premium in Australia pp. 25-54: Jordy Meekes
Course non-completion and multiple qualifications: re-estimating the returns to education in Australia pp. 55-80: Austen Peters, Alfred Dockery and Sherry Bawa
Immigration, skills and changing urban income inequality in New Zealand pp. 81-109: Omoniyi B. Alimi, David Maré and Jacques Poot

A gender lens on the workforce impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia pp. 111-144: Leonora Risse and Angela Jackson
COVID-19: An Opportunity to Reset Policy Levers for Better Gender Equality in the Economy and Society pp. 145-174: Tania Dey and Michael O’Neil
Women, COVID-19 and Superannuation pp. 175-198: Elisa Birch and Alison Preston
Assaults during lockdown in New South Wales and Victoria pp. 199-212: Solmaz Moslehi, Jaai Parasnis, Max Tani and Josephina Vejayaratnam
Gendered impacts of changing social security payments during COVID-19 lockdowns: an exploratory study pp. 213-225: Elise Klein, Kay Cook, Susan Maury and Kelly Bowey

The impact of implicit bias on Indigenous business ownership rates in Australia pp. 1-24: Siddarth Shirodkar and Boyd Hunter
A longitudinal analysis of economic inactivity among Indigenous youth pp. 25-45: Yonatan Dinku
Analysis of gender segregation within detailed occupations and industries in Australia pp. 47-69: Gerard Lind and Rebecca Colquhoun
Changing demand for STEM skills in Australia and gender implications pp. 71-110: Alfred Dockery, John Phillimore and Sherry Bawa

JobKeeper: The efficacy of Australia’s first short-time wage subsidy pp. 99-128: Rebecca Cassells and Alan Duncan
Early estimates of the impact of COVID-19 disruptions on jobs, wages, and lifetime earnings of schoolchildren in Australia pp. 129-151: Gigi Foster
Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 on job postings in Australia using a reweighting-estimation-transformation approach pp. 153-171: Kailing Shen and Bledi Taska
Scarring effects: A review of Australian and international literature pp. 173-187: Jeff Borland
How might COVID-19 affect the Indigenous labour market? pp. 189-209: Yonatan Dinku, Boyd Hunter and Francis Markham
The urgent need for Tax Reform in Australia in the COVID-19 World pp. 211-229: Tristram Sainsbury and Robert Breunig
The Proposed Job-ready Graduate Package: a misguided arrow missing its target pp. 231-251: Phil Lewis and Anne Daly

The impact of varying penalty values on compliance with unemployment payment requirements: An analysis using 2015/16 Australian National Data pp. 1-20: Andrew Wright and Brian Dollery
The labour market outcomes of Australian Creative Arts degree holders pp. 21-42: Phil Lewis and Jee Young Lee
Leaning in: Is higher confidence the key to women's career advancement? pp. 43-77: Leonora Risse
Do financial constraints affect the composition of workers of a firm? pp. 79-97: Robert Breunig, Diana Hourani, Sasan Bakhtiari and Elisabetta Magnani

Casualisation of work and inequality in the Australian labour market pp. 53-74: Alexis Esposto and Juan Felix Agudelo
Understanding the retirement savings of self-employed tradespeople in Australia pp. 75-92: Aaron Elkhishina, Tracey West and Kirsten MacDonald
Is there regional lock-in of unemployment rates in Australia? pp. 93-115: Rohan Best and Paul Burke
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to work we go – the Fourth Industrial Revolution and thoughts on the future of work in Australia pp. 117-142: Lisa Denny

Conversations with an Eminent Labour Economist: Stephen Machin pp. 1-4: Sholeh Maani
Factors underlying the likelihood of being in business for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians pp. 5-27: Siddharth Shirodkar and Boyd Hunter
The gender wage gap in Bangladesh: an application of Olsen and Walby simulation method pp. 29-51: Anne Daly and Nafisa Anjum