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Australian Bulletin of Labour

 

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Vol 34 No 1 2008
Contributed Article: The Extent and Nature of Exits From the Disability Support Pension L Cai, H Vu, R Wilkins
Contributed Article: Information Privacy and Employee Records in Australia: Which Way Forward? A Pyman, A O'Rourke, J Teicher
Contributed Article: Fighting Back: Workplace Sexual Harrassment and the Case of North Country P McDonald, S Backstrom
Contributed Article: Jarhead and Deskilling in the Military: Potential Implications for the Australian Labour Market K Townsend, M Charles
Contributed Article: Labour Force Projections: a Case Study of the Greater Metropolitan Area of NSW Y Tan, L Lester, S Richardson
Contributed Article: Skill: an Elusive and Ambiguous Concept in Labour Market Studies A Esposto

Please note: Volume 33 comprised of Issues 1 & 2 only

Vol 33 No 2 2007
Contributed Article: Introduction to Special Issue. Taking Care: Work and Family Policy Issues for Australia M Baird, G Whitehouse
Contributed Article: Maternity Leave and Return to Work in Australia - Accessibility and Use in a State Utility C Diamond, M Baird, G Whitehouse
Contributed Article: Paid Maternity Leave in 'Best Practice' Organisations: Introduction, Implementation and Organisation Context S Charlesworth
Contributed Article: Marginalising Women inthe Labour Market: 'Wage Scarring' Effects of Park-Time Work J Chalmers, T Hill
Contributed Article: What Does Family-Friendly Really Mean? Wellbeing, Time and the Quality of Parents' Job L Strazdins, M Shipley, D Broom
Contributed Article:

Budgeting for Work-Lief Balance: The Ideology and Politics of Work and Family Policy in Australia

E Hill
Contributed Article: The Right to Request Flexible Working: A 'Very British' Approach to Gender (In)Equality S Himmelweit

 

Vol 33 No 1 2007
Contributed Article: Worker Representation in Australia: Moving Towards Overseas Models? A. Forsythe
Contributed Article: Industrial Relations Change in the Illawarra Region of NSW: an Insight into Responses to the Workplace Relations Act A Hodgkinson, R Markey
Contributed Article: Compounding Vunerability? Young Workers' Employment Concerns and the Anticipated Impact of the Workchoices Act P McDonald, J Bailey, D Oliver, Barbara
Contributed Article: Ignoring the Evidence: Comments on the Debate on Antipodean Neoliberal Workplace Reform and Labour Productivity L Perry
Contributed Article: The Aged Care Workfoice: Methods to Increase Supply to Remedy Possible Shortages J Flavel

 

Vol 32 No 4 2006
Contributed Article: Will Older Workers Change Their Retirement Plans in Line with Government Thinking? A Review of Recent Literature on Retirement Intentions N. Jackson, M. Walter, B. Felmingham, A, Spinaze
Contributed Article: The Changing Contours of Labour Disputes and Conflict Resolution in Australia: Towards a Post-Arbitral Measurement Framework C. Briggs
Contributed Article: Protecting Employee Entitlements: Corporate Governance and Industrial Democracy in Australia J. Burgess, J. Lewer, P. Waring
Contributed Article: Voting with Their Feet: Family Friendliness and Parent Employment in Australian Industries, 1981-2001 L. Strazdins, D. Broom, S. Mayerkort, B. Warren
Contributed Article: Labour Market Reforms and Lockouts in New Zealand L. Perry
Contributed Article: Insider Power, Outsider Ineffectiveness and Wage Setting Institutions: Evidence from Australia M. Dobbie

 

Vol 32 No 3 2006
Contributed Article: Labour Market Transitions and Risks of Exclusion S. Ziguras
Contributed Article: Contemporary Disability Employment Policy in Australia: how can it Best Support Transitions from Welfare to Work? L. Macali
Contributed Article: Care Giving and Employment: Policy Recognition of Care and Pathways to Labour Force Return B. Cass
Contributed Article: Mature Workers, Training and Using TLM Frameworks L. Hancock
Contributed Article: Alternative Sources of Welfare J. Perry
Contributed Article: Creating Decent Jobs: the Role of Regulation in Facilitating Transitions Between Employment and Unemployment in the Labour Market J. Howe

 

Vol 32 No 2 2006
Contributed Article: Transitional Labour Markets: A Social Investment and Risk Mitigation Strategy for Social Policy L. Hancock, B Howe, M Considine
Contributed Article: Transitional Labour Markets: Experiences From Europe and Germany G. Schmidt
Contributed Article: Labour Market Flexibility and Social Protection in European Welfare States - Contrasts and Similarities P.K. Madsen
Contributed Article: Increasing Employment Participation in Australia and How to Finance it M. Keating
Contributed Article: Beyond Voodoo Economics and Backlash Social Policy: Where Next for Working Life Research and Policy J. Buchanan, I. Watson & C. Briggs

 

Vol 32 No 1 2006
Opinion: Australian Labour Market Reform - What Needs to be Done? R. Blandy
Opinion: Stories About Productivity J. Quiggin
Contributed Article: Arbitration Extinguished: the Impact of the Work Choice Legislation on the Australian Industrial Relations Commission A. Forsyth
Contributed Article: The Rise of Managerial Prerogative Under the Howard Government M. Bray & P. Waring
Contributed Article: Workers' Compensation Western Australia; a Case Study 1993 - 2004 R. Guthrie, K. Purse & P. Lurie
Contributed Article: Lockouts and Strikes: Some Comments on the Experience of India and Australia L.J. Perry

 

Vol 31 No 4 2005
Contributed Article: Choosing to be a Nurse, Remaining a Nurse and Leaving Nursing in the WA, Nursing Workforce Issues in the Twenty-First Century Margaret Nowak
Contributed Article: Registered Nurses: Who are they and what do they Want? Alison Preston
Contributed Article: Who’d be a  Nurse? Some Evidence on Career Choice in Australia A.M.Dockery & A.Barns
Contributed Article: Nursing Careers: What Motivated Nurses to Choose their Profession Rebecca McCabe et al
Contributed Article: Nursing Voices Margaret Nowak and Maureen Bickley
Contributed Article: Increasing Retention of Nursing Staff at Hospitals: Aspects of Management and Leadership Maurita Naude and Rebecca McCabe

 

Vol 31 No 3 2005
Contributed Article: The Coalition's Proposed Industrial Relations Changes: an Interim Assessment John Howe et al
Contributed Article: A Simple Plan for Reform? The Problem of Complexity in Workplace Regulation Andrew Stewart
Contributed Article: The Case for Unfair Dismissal Reform: A Review of the Evidence W.Robbins and G.Voll
Contributed Article: The Variable Impact of New Public Management and Budget Cuts on the Work Intensification of Nurses and Doctors in one Public Hospital in SA between 1994-2000 Eileen Willis
Contributed Article: Industry Representation, Structural Change and the Older Mail Worker in Australia (1985 - 2005) Martin O'Brien
Reply: Australian's 1990's Productivity Surge: A Response to Keith Hancock's Challenge Dean Parham

 

Vol 31 No 2 2005
Contributed article: Coming Soon to a Workplace Near you - the New Industrial Relations Revolution David Peetz
Invited Review: A new Province for Law & Order. Assessing One Hundred Years of Industrial Arbitration in Australia Peter Gahan & Bruce Hearn-MacKinnon
Contributed article: A Potential Divident from Workforce Ageing in Australia Ross Guest
Contributed article: Do Longer Working Hours Lead to More Workplace Injuries? Evidence from Australian Industry - Level Panel Data Roger Wilkins
Contributed article: The Role and Usage of Conciliation and Mediation in Dispute Resolution in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission Helen Forbes-Mewitt et al

 

Volume 31 No 1 2005
Opinion: How the Judiciary Continues to Undermine Labour Market Deregulation Des Moore
Opinion: Productivity Growth in Australia 1964-65 to 2003-04 Keith Hancock
Comment: The Return of the Lockout Len Perry
Reply: Why Lockouts Matter: a Response to Perry Chris Briggs
Contributed Article: Skills Shortages: Concepts, Measurement and Policy Responses Chandra Shah, Gerald Burke
Contributed Article: Some Employment Relations Consequences of the Merger and Acquisition Movement in the Australian Black Coal Mining Industry 1997- 2003 Peter Waring

 

FROM THE EDITORS

Vol 31 No 1 2005 is the first number of the Australian Bulletin of Labour since that for June 2004, which was in fact some three months late.

We are embarrassed by the delays in publication, which have one cause: an insufficiency of suitable papers. The direct effect of this is exacerbated by problems with which any journal has to contend. We lack a stockpile of papers which might protect our publication schedule against these problems.

We do not intend to relax our editorial standards in choosing papers for publication.

Confronted by the choice between designating this number, misleadingly, as 'September 2004' and adopting some other approach, we have opted for the latter.

There will be no more numbers bearing the 2004 designation. Volume 30 will comprise the two numbers that have already been published.

In 2005 and subsequent years we shall publish as many numbers of the journal as the supply of suitable papers permits. These will be designated simply as No. 1, No. 2, etc, with no reference to date within the year. Thus the present number forms part of Volume 31 and is designated as 2005 No. 1.

Subscribers for 2004 have received only the two numbers rather than the expected four. This and the next number will be sent as part of their subscriptions. Any subscriber who finds this unacceptable is invited to contact Trish Amee (08-82012265; trish.amee@flinders.edu.au) so that a partial refund can be arranged. In future, subscriptions will cover four or twelve numbers of the journal.

We regret the necessity to adopt this procedure, but judge that it is the best available to us.

Keith Hancock
Diannah Lowry

 

June 2004 (Volume 30 No. 2)
Contributed Article: Workforce Experience and Retention in Nursing Australia (A M Dockery)
Contributed Article: The Return of the Lockout in Australia: a Profile of the Lockouts Since the Decentralisation of Bargaining (Chris Briggs)
Contributed Article: Gender Differences in Academic Rank in Australian Universities (Siobhan Austen)
Comment: Comments on the Decline in Strikes in Australia (Len Perry)
Reply: The Australian Strike Rate and Industrial Relations: a Brief Reply to Perry (Josh Healy)

 

March 2004 (Volume 30:1)
Economic Forecast: Medium term prospects for the Australian economy and the impact of Kyoto-compliance (Phillip D. Adams)
Contributed article: Meeting the challenge of casual work in Australia: evidence, past treatment and future policy (Pocock, Buchanan, Campbell)
Invited Paper: Where to now? Welfare and labour market regulation in Australia (Bob Gregory)
Contributed Article: Beyond the unemployment rate: Three new measures of labour under utilisation for South Australia (Steven Barrett)
Information: Recent labour market conditions in Australia (Josh Healy)

 

September 2003 (Volume 29:3)
Contributed Article: Using Input-Output Analysis to Identify Australia's High Employment Generating Industries (Abbas Valadkhani)
Contributed Article: The Determinants of Incentive Schemes: Australian Panel Data (Michelle Brown and John S. Heywood)
Contributed Article: Selling Human Services: Public Sector Rationalisation and the Call Centre Labour Process (Diane van den Broek)
Contributed Article: The Likely Effects of Ageing on Women's Involvement in the Paid Workforce (Siobhan Austen and Margaret Giles)
Contributed Article:

Structural Change in Australian Trade Unionism, 1969-1996: A Structural Events Approach (Kerrie Hose)

 

June 2003 (Volume 29:2)
Opinion: Flexible Measures for a Flexible Labour Market (Richard Denniss)
Contributed Article:

Race Against Time: Extended Hours in Australia (David Peetz, Keith Townsend, Bob Russell, Chris Houghton, Cameron Allan and Andréa Fox)

Contributed Article: Beyond Performance Indicators: A Case Study in Aged Care (Sue Stack)
Contributed Article: Management Responses to Unions in Australian Call Centres: Exclude, Tolerate or Embrace? (Patricia Todd, Joan Eveline, Leonie Still and Judy Skene)
Contributed Article: Structural Change in Australian Trade Unionism, 1969-1996: A Structural Events Approach (Kerrie Hose)

 

March 2003 (Volume 29:1)
Conference Paper: Employment Entitlements; Development, Access, Flexibility and Protection (John Burgess and Marian Baird)
Conference Paper:

Legislating for Benefits - NSW 1941 - 1958 (Greg Patmore)

Conference Paper:

Protection for Employment Entitlements: A Legal Perspective (Joellen Riley)

Conference Paper:

Employment Benefits in Enterprise Agreements: An Overview (Susan McGrath-Champ)

Conference Paper:

Employment Entitlements and Casual Status: Lessons from Two Queensland Cases (Gillian Whitehouse and Tricia Rooney)

Conference Paper:

Bargaining for Welfare: Gender Consequences of Australia's Dual Welfare Model (Therese Jefferson and Alison Preston)

Conference Paper:

Paid Maternity Leave: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (Marian Baird)

 

December 2002 (Volume 28:4)

Economic Forecast:

Drought, Regions and the Australian Economy Between 2001-02 and 2004-05 (Dr Phillip D. Adams, Mark Horridge, John R. Madden and Glyn Wittwer)

Contributed Articles:

Self-Employment Programs and Outcomes for Disadvantaged Jobseekers (Ross Kelly, Charles Mulvey and P.E.T. Lewis)

Contributed Articles:

In Search of Flexibility: Implications for Temporary Agency Workers and Human Resource Management (Julia Connell and John Burgess)

Contributed Articles:

The Impact of Industrial Relations Systems on Training: Evidence from Selected Industrialised Economies (Russell D. Lansbury and Richard Pickersgill)

 

September 2002 (Volume 28:3)
The Australian Labour Market: The Cleaner, the Waiter, the Computer Operator: Job Change, 1986-2001(Mark Cully)
Opinion: Minimum Wages: Employment and Welfare Effects, or Why Card and Krueger Were Wrong (Des Moore)
Contributed Article:

The Decline and Fall of the Tally System in the Meat Processing Industry (Gordon Stewart)

Contributed Article:

The Equity Effects of Labour Market Programs (Elizabeth Webster and David Johnson)

 

June 2002 (Volume 28:2)
The Australian Labour Market: Consumer Prices and Wages in the Twentieth Century (Keith Hancock)
Contributed Article:

Peace at Last? Recent Trends in Australia's Indusrial Action (Josh Healy)

Contributed Article:

The Decline in Apprenticeship Training in the Electrical and Associated Industries In Victoria (David Worland and James Doughney)

Contributed Article:

AWAs: A Review of the Literature and Debates (Kristin van Barneveld and Peter Waring)

Contributed Article:

Child Labour in the 21st Century: the Part-Time School Student Workforce in Australia (Erica Smith & L Wilson)

March 2002 (Volume 28:1)

The Australian Labour Market:

Year of the Flip Flop: The Australian Labour Market in 2001 (Mark Cully & Phong Ngo)

Contributed Article:

Full Employment in a Low-Growth or Steady-State Economy: A Consideration of the Issues (Philip A Lawn)

Contributed Article:

Individual Contracts, Bargaining & Union Membership (David Peetz)

Debate:

Getting at the Truth about Hiring Apprentices: A Critique of Dockery et al. ( Paul Chapman & Mark Cully)

Debate:

Getting at the Truth about Hiring Apprentices: Rejoinder (A M Dockery, R Kelly, K Norris & T Stromback)

December 2001 (Volume 27:4)
Economic Forecast: The September 11 Shock to Tourism and the Australian Economy from 2001-02 to 2003-04 (P D Adams, P B Dixon & M T Rimmer)
Contributed Articles: The Rise of Intangible Capital and Labour Market Segmentation (E Webster)
Contributed Articles: Women, Superannuation and the SGC (A Preston & S Austen)
Contributed Articles: Regional Unemployment in Queensland: Dimensions and Policy Issues (P McGuire)

 

September 2001 (Volume 27:3)
The Australian Labour Market:

The Changing Australian Labour Market: Developments during the Last Decade (A Preston)

Reprint of 1926 Lecture: Industrial Arbitration (H B Higgins)
Contributed Article: Costs and Benefits of New Apprenticeships (M Dockery, R Kelly, K Norris & T Stromback)
Contributed Article: New Apprenticeships: An Unheralded Labour Market Program (M Cully & R Curtain)
Contributed Article: The Changing Frontier of Control in Coal: Evidence from a Decade of Enterprise Bargaining in the Australian Black Coal Mining Industry (P Waring & M Barry)

June 2001 (Volume 27:2) Special Issue on Casual Employment
Editor's Introduction: by M Cully
Contributed Article: A New Estimate of Casual Employment? (I Campbell & I Burgess)
Invited Article: A New Estimate of Casual Employment? Reply (G Murtough & M Waite)
Contributed Article: The 'Long-term or Permanent Casual' - An Oxymoron or 'a well enough understood Australianism' in the Law (R Owens)
Invited Article: The ACTU's Response to the Growth in Long-term Casual Employment in Australia (R Watts)

March 2001(Volume 27:1)
The Australian Labour Market: The Labour Market-2000 in Perspective (K Hancock & B Safari)
Contributed Article: Shiftwork and Rostering Arrangements in the Australian Mining Industry: An Overview of Key Trends (K Heiler & R Pickersgill)
Contributed Article: Re-Regulation of Bargaining in New Zealand: The Employment Relations Act 2000 (P Walsh & R Harbridge)
Contributed Article: The Fusion of Picketing, Policing and Public Order Theory within the Industrial Relations Context of the 1992 APPM Dispute at Burnie (D Baker)

December 2000 (Volume 26:4)
Economic Forecast: The Exchange Rate Puzzle and Forecasts for the Australian Economy from 2000-01 to 2004-5 (P Adams, P B Dixon, D McDonald & M Rimmer)
Contributed Article: Reassessing the Role of Child Care Costs in the Work and Care Decisions of Australian Families (D A Cobb-Clark, A Liu & D Mitchell)
Contributed Article: Leadership Representativeness in the Australian Union Movement (T Bramble)
Contributed Article: Living Art: Artists between Making Art and Making a Living (M Rengers & C Madden)

September 2000 (Volume 26:3)
The Australian Labour Market: Beyond the Unemployment Rate: Building a Set of Indices to Measure the Health of the Labour Market
(I Watson)
The Australian Labour Market: The Changing Skill Composition of Labour Demand (M Wooden)
Contributed Article:
A Modest Proposal for the New Millenium (R Allen & I Hunt)
Contributed Article: Community Attitudes Towards Unemployment, Activity Testing and Mutual Obligation (T Eardley, P Saunders & C Evans)
Contributed Article: Telework in Australia: Findings from a National Survey in Selected Industries (G Lafferty & G Whitehouse)

June 2000 (Volume 26:2)
The Australian Labour Market: Trends in Australian Industrial Regulation (K Hancock)
The Australian Labour Market: How Long do Jobs Last in Australia? (K Norris & B Mclean)
Contributed Article: Trade Union Mergers: A Survey of the Literature (G Michelson)
Contributed Article: An Alternative to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (D Moore)
Contributed Article: Retrenchment and Industry Policy (S Weller)

Mar 2000 (Volume 26:1)
The Australian Labour Market The Labour Market in 1999: The Year in Review (M Wooden)
The Australian Labour Market Unions @ a Loss: Members and Earnings (Mark Cully)
Contributed Article
The Location and Characteristics of Fixed-term and Casual Female Workers in Australia: Analysis of AWIRS95 (Richard Hall and Bill Harley)
Contributed Article Female Earnings in Australia: An Analysis of 1991 Census Data (Alison C Preston)
Contributed Article Immigrants' Labour Market Experiences in the Early Settlement Years (Adriana VandenHeuvel and Mark Wooden)

Dec 1999 (Volume 25:4)
Economic Forecast Economic Forecast Employment in Australia: Occupations, Threats and Opportunities (Philip D Adams, Peter B Dixon, Diana McDonald, G A Meagher & Maureen Rimmer)
Contributed Article Member-Union Satisfaction in Australia (Glennis Hanley)
Contributed Article

Innovation in Australian Workplaces: An Empirical Analysis (Mark Rogers)

ONE HUNDRED (AND ONE) BULLETINS- A CONSOLIDATED INDEX

Sept 1999 (Volume 25:3)
The Australian Labour Market The Australian Labour Market: Preparing for the New Millennium (M Wooden)
The Booming Australian Labour Market: State Variations (M Cully)
Work and Family in Australia The Future of Work and Family (DEdgar)
Delivering on Work and Family: The Workplace Relations Act 1996 (P Reith)
Where does Australia fit in Internationally with Work and Family Issues (G Russell & J Bourke)
Contributed Article Dismissing the Unfair Dismissal Myth (P Waring & A De Ruyter)
Contributed Note The 'Adult at 18' Alternative (P Lewis & B McLean)

June 1999 (Volume 25:2)
The Australian Labour Market Employee Relations in Australia-An Inter-industry Comparison (M Cully & A VandenHeuvel)
A More or Less Skilled Workforce? Changes in the Occupational Composition of Employment, 1993 to 1999
(by M Cully)
Labour Market Performance of Australia's Non-metropolitan Regions (D Howard & J Buultjens)
Economics, Industrial Relations and the Challenge of Unemployment (K Hancock)
Voluntary and Involuntary Labour Mobility of Australian Men over the Business Cycle (J T McDonald & B S Felmingham)
Labour Market Programs and Labour Force Status (T Stromback, A M Dockery & W Ying)
The Competency Claims Regarding Junior Wage Rates (R Hamilton)

Mar 1999 (Volume 25:1)
  The Australian Labour Market in 1999: The Year in Review (Mark Wooden)
Mature Age Workers: Are they a Disadvantaged Group in the Labour Market? (Adriana VandenHeuvel)
Changes in Earnings Inequality, 1975 to 1998 (Keith Norris and Ben Mclean)
Employment Data from Regional Australia: Evidence of Policy Weakness (Dennis Howard)
The Performance of the US Labour Market (Des Moore)
Strikes and the Accord: The Final Word? (Alan Morris and Kenneth Wilson)

March 1999 Volume 24:4
Economic Forecast Prospects for the Australian Economy and the Impact of the Asian Crisis (Philip Adams)
The Future of Work The Workplace of the Future: Insights from Futures Scenarios and Today's High Performance Workplaces (Richard Curtain)
The Future is Bright (Des Moore)
Clever Work, Clever Country: An Australian Scenario (Peter Saul)
The Changing Nature of Work: Some Implications (Peter Sheehan)

Sept 1998 (Volume 24:3)
The Australian Labour Market- Prospects for the Australian Labour Market (Anne Hawke)
The State of the States (Adriana VandenHeuvel)
Is Job Stability Really Declining? (Mark Wooden)
Industrial Relations Implications of the Australian Waterside Dispute (Gerard Griffin & Stuart Svensen)
A Priority of Rights: Freedom of Association and the Waterfront Dispute (Ron McCallum)
Recent Changes in the Australian Workforce: A Focus on the Structure of Indigenous Employment (Boyd Hunter & Matthew Gray)

June 98 ( Volume 24:2)
A Minimum Wage: Are we Returning to Justice Higgins? (Anne Hawke)
Is it Worth Working? The Financial Impact of Increased Hours of Work by Married Mothers with Young Children (Gillian Beer)
Work Culture and Productivity in the Australian Coal Industry (Ken Foots)
How Apprentices Learn to Work (Erica Smith)
Trends in NSW Government Apprentice Intake: Causes and Implications (Phillip Toner)

Mar 98 ( Volume 24:1)
  The Australian Labour Market - March 1998 (Judith Sloan)
Trade Union Amalgamations, Openness and the Decline in Australian Trade Union Membership (Philip M Bodman)
Indigenous Sole Parent Families: Welfare Dependency and Work Opportunities (Anne Daly & Diane Smith)
Unemployment Forever? (Harold Lydall)

 

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