Labour Underutilisation in Metropolitan Labour Markets in Australia: Individual Characteristics, Personal Circumstances and Local Labour Markets

Scott Baum, Anthea Bill and William Mitchell
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Scott Baum: Urban Research Program, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, Brisbane, Queensland, 4111, Australia, s.baum@griffith.edu.au
Anthea Bill: Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, anthea.bill@newcastle.edu.au
William Mitchell: Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, bill.mitchell@newcastle.edu.au

Urban Studies, 2008, vol. 45, issue 5-6, 1193-1216

Abstract: There has been a growing awareness that the issue of labour market disadvantage is substantially greater than merely considering unemployment and the ability to find a job. There is an increasing literature that points to the advantages of considering a broader concept which accounts not only for those people who are traditionally unemployed, but also for individuals who are underemployed and those who are sub-unemployed or discouraged workers. Taking multidimensional survey and census data for Australian metropolitan regions, this paper applies a broad employability framework to an understanding of labour underutilisation which presents the risk of underutilisation as a function of individual characteristics, personal circumstances and the impact of local labour market characteristics. The analysis finds that the risk of labour underutilisation is associated with a range of individual characteristics and personal circumstances together with the characteristics of the metropolitan local labour market.

Date: 2008
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