This report details the financial position of Australian households using the latest ABS Survey of Income and Housing and other data sources.

This report provides updated estimates of the household impact of the Government's Clean Energy future package and shows that the estimed impact of the carbon price will be lower than that estimed by Treasury. The empirical modelling has been updated to incorporate the latest household expenditure data - the 2009-10 Australian Bureau of Statistics Household...

This publication presents information about the outcomes for students who completed their vocational education and training during 2007. Information about the level and type of training students undertake, further study patterns and reasons for not continuing with the training (where applicable) is also collected.

How do apprentice numbers in the trades respond to changes in labour market conditions? This paper finds that some trade apprenticeships are particularly sensitive to labour market conditions; that historical relationships between apprenticeship numbers and the labour market have broken down in the last ten years; and that government initiatives have been unable to counteract...

Ten reports from this research program are now available. The program investigated future work skill needs and work organisation arrangements, and their implications for vocational education and training (VET). Included in this latest release is a summary which draws together the key points.