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Labour Market Deregulation in Australia: The slow combustion approach to workplace change
Iain Campbell,Peter Brosnan +1 more
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The authors argue that labour market deregulation is amplifying existing trends to growth in precarious employment, wage dispersion and the development of a low-pay sector amongst full-time employees in Australia.Abstract:
Since the beginning of the 1990s Australia has experienced a gradual but far-reaching process of labour market deregulation. Labour market deregulation has proceeded primarily through the dismantling of the distinctive system of awards-the main avenue of external, protective regulation in Australia for much of the 20th century. This paper examines labour market deregulation and its implications for the Australian workforce. It situates the changes in terms of their institutional starting point in the award system and the growing pressures in the 1980s for increased labour market flexibility. It argues that labour market deregulation is amplifying existing trends to growth in precarious employment, wage dispersion and the development of a low-pay sector amongst full-time employees. In addition, it is sponsoring a significant fragmentation of working-time arrangements.read more
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The psychosocial quality of work determines whether employment has benefits for mental health: results from a longitudinal national household panel survey
Peter Butterworth,Liana S. Leach,Lyndall Strazdins,Sarah C Olesen,Bryan Rodgers,Dorothy Broom +5 more
TL;DR: Overall, unemployed respondents had poorer mental health than those who were employed, however the mental health of those who was unemployed was comparable or superior to those in jobs of the poorest psychosocial quality.
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Extended Working Hours In Australia
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Babies, Budgets, and Birthrates: Work/Family Policy in Australia 1996–2006
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Precarious Jobs in Labour Market Regulation: The Growth of Atypical Employment in Western Europe
Gerry Rodgers,Janine Rodgers +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide information on the extent of different forms of atypical work and their growth in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly referring to Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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Globalization, Labour Flexibility and Insecurity: The Era of Market Regulation
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