This report focuses on the issue of (mis)match between labour and housing markets in large, globally connected cities in the current era of globalisation. Inevitably, attention in the Australian context is directed towards Sydney and Melbourne. Author Mike Berry draws on the urban analyses of theorists like Sassen, Fainstein and Marcuse who see the processes...

During 2005 the existence of a strong labour market and relatively weak economic growth generated significant interest and debate among economic commentators and policy makers. While there is a general understanding of a lagged relationship between economic growth, as measured by GDP volumes, and growth in the labour market, as measured by employment, the nature...

This feature article from the Australian Bureau of Statistics examines changes in the size and composition of the labour force in Western Australia and identifies factors that have contributed to those changes. It also explores changes in the geographic distribution of the state's labour force. The labour force in Western Australia has undergone considerable change...

Up until 2001 there was little direct evidence that housing affordability problems were heightening labour shortages, as low-income jobs moved to low cost suburbs, and those jobs in the inner city - such as hospitality or retail jobs - were filled by young people who were more likely to share housing costs in group households...

Over the past 50 years, Australia has maintained a labour productivity level of around 80 per cent of that of the United States. To explain this gap, there is growing interest in the hindrances that might be imposed by Australia’s geographic isolation. Bryn Battersby provides an initial investigation of the link between distance and labour...