 Occupational Mobility of Indigenous and Other AustraliansAustralian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), 2017, vol. 20, issue 2, 149-165 Abstract: This paper describes Indigenous and non-Indigenous occupational mobility (i.e. changes in the skill level of an occupation in which an individual is employed) using the Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset, 2006–11. The paper also considers movements out of paid employment, by occupation, and the occupations in which people who move into employment are employed. The main finding is that Indigenous people are more likely than non-Indigenous people to enter the labour market through low-skill jobs, and to have greater downward mobility because they are more likely than non-Indigenous people to leave employment from the highest skill occupations. For those who are employed at successive censuses, there is not a great deal of difference in Indigenous and non-Indigenous patterns of occupational mobility. By analysing the flows into and out of particular occupations, this paper also attempts to broaden the understanding of job retention rates. We explore some interpretations of this data using recent literature on job polarisation and routinisation of work. Keywords: occupation mobility; Indigenous; labour market (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ozl:journl:v:20:y:2017:i:2:p:149-165 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School Contact information at EDIRC. |
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