Nicholas Biddle and Boyd Hunter examine patterns of migration and factors associated with both the decision to move and the choice of destination. The results suggest that Indigenous Australians are less responsive to local economic factors than other Australians, and social and cultural factors appear to play a particularly significant role in their decision making.

One important and under-researched aspect of labour market policy is the extent to which policy interventions are effective in modifying job search behaviour. Furthermore, there is little extant research on whether certain job search behaviours lead to labour market success. Matthew Gray and Boyd Hunter's analysis uses the only large-scale longitudinal survey of Indigenous Australians...

Nic Biddle, Boyd Hunter, and Jerry Schwab examine the distribution of Indigenous education participation across Australia, and present the most important factors explaining these rates.

Jon Altman, Boyd Hunter and Nicholas Biddle examine trends across a number of socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians from the 1967 referendum to the present, using four Censuses of Population and Housing carried out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. Outcomes for Indigenous Australians, non-Indigenous Australians and the ratios...

This paper provide the first ever baseline of data on the job search behaviour of Indigenous job seekers and how it compares to the job search of non-Indigenous job seekers, with clear differences between these groups. Indigenous Australians rely disproportionately on friends and relatives as a source of information about jobs, although their networks tend...