This paper identifies broad patterns, or pathways, in labour market and education activities associated with different life stages. Key points: This paper uses longitudinal information from the calendar in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to track monthly education and labour market activities from 2000 to 2010 for about 6500 working...

Strong economic growth is a way of increasing living standards and opportunities. Yet despite growing levels of prosperity over the last two decades, and the unemployment rate more than halving, there are concerns within the community that some Australians are being ‘left behind’. Headline statistics on Australia’s most disadvantaged people frequently appear in the media...

The Australian Government has asked the Commission to assess geographic labour mobility within Australia and its role in a well-functioning labour market (attachment A). Matters on which the Commission has been asked to report include: • patterns of geographic labour mobility in Australia, the implications of structural, demographic and technological developments and key determinants of...

This draft report was released on 31 May 2013. Written submissions are invited by Monday 15 July 2013. The final report will be prepared after submissions have been received and public hearings held. The final report will be forwarded to the Government by end September 2013. See also More about the Mineral and Energy Resource...

Key Points: The market failure that the National Access Regime should address is a lack of effective competition in markets for infrastructure services due to natural monopoly. This is likely to constitute an economic problem where service providers deny access to, or restrict output and charge monopoly prices for, their facilities and access is required...