This is a guide to long-term unemployment in Australia, by Lisa Fowkes.

This December issue reveals that over the last decade, the number of jobless families has fallen, while the number of people who live alone has been increasing. We also see that Australians are less likely to smoke than in the past, but more likely to be obese and that many workers work non-traditional hours. Latest...

For many jobseekers low-paid work is in itself not a good stepping stone towards a better job, so the policy focus has thus shifted from helping welfare recipients to obtain jobs, to supporting employment in quality jobs that offer opportunities for wage and career progression. This paper looks at career aspirations among Australians who have...

This European study presents an innovative approach to short-term forecasts of unemployment using data on Google search words, which allows them to predict unemployment trends as early as one month before the official figures are released by the Federal Employment Agency. In times of crisis, there is a particularly strong demand for early and reliable...

Both Australian and overseas studies over the past decade have shown that the burden of joblessness has increasingly become concentrated in certain households with diminished prospects of those not in work being able to be supported materially by other family members. At the same time there has been an increase in all-work households.