New information and communications technologies increasingly allow a wide range of business services to be delivered electronically from distant offices, a practice known as eWork. Noting that the increasing use of eWork in a globalising economy may have significant implications for employment in regional and rural Australia as existing jobs are lost and new opportunities...

This research reports on stakeholders communities affected by Fly-in/Fly-out (FIFO) operations to inform strategies to maximise identified benefits and minimise identified negative impacts of FIFO in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Tony Kryger provides an analysis of certain labour force characteristics of families from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing for Commonwealth Electoral Divisions. It seeks to measure the extent of labour market disadvantage experienced by families by providing a basis on which to make comparisons between electorates. Data for each labour force characteristic are...

The primary focus of this paper is to estimate future growth in the Australian dental labour force and subsequently model the future capacity of the dental labour force to supply dental visits in Australia. Projections to the year 2015 of the dentist, dental therapist, dental hygienist and dental prosthetist labour forces are presented.

This report found that experience of working full-time early in the school-to-work transition has the most positive effect on youth labour market outcomes. In addition, early experience of unemployment has a 'scarring' effect on subsequent unemployment. The report, the latest in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), examines the labour market outcomes of a...