This guide provides a brief overview of employment, an introduction to some of the key concepts and terminology, and lists some relevant data sources. This is one in a series of Quick Guides related to labour statistics, designed to provide a basic understanding of Australian labour market data. Other guides include labour force, unemployment and...

This draft report, which the Productivity Commission is seeking public comment on, argues that geographic labour mobility is helping the economy adjust to major structural change, and has enabled wealth to be spread across the country. Key points:

This report outlines the workforce characteristics of nurses and midwives in 2012.

In this paper, the current policy of planning for self-sufficiency in the Perth metropolitan area is evaluated against an enhanced understanding of the wider literature on the motives, measures, achievements and complexities inherent in the notion of balanced growth.

This publication presents information about the educational experience and associated characteristics of persons aged 15 to 74 years. Statistics in this publication were collected in May 2013 as a supplement to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS). Information collected in the survey includes: labour force characteristics; participation in education in...