Employment and industrial relations publications

Stimulating South Australia: Public Housing in South Australia & the Wider Impact of the Australian Government's Stimulus Package
This report identifies the employment and economic impacts of the Australian Government's stimulus package on South Australia with a particular focus on the public housing component of the package. [further details]

Experience Works: The Mature Age Employment Challenge: Discussion Paper
This discussion paper, prepared for National Seniors Australia, examines the critical factors affecting mature age Australians' ability to access paid employment and to remain in employment. [further details]

Exploring the Impact of an Ageing Workforce on the South Australian Workers' Compensation Scheme
Understanding the implications of an ageing workforce for workers compensation arrangements in South Australia is timely in the face of such significant demands. This report prepared by the Australian Institute for Social Research (AISR) is designed to assist WorkCover SA to better understand and respond to the benefits and challenges associated with an ageing workforce in South Australia. [further details]

A preliminary analysis of direct and indirect costs associated with the relocation of prison facilities to the Murray Bridge district
The report details the findings of a survey of staff from the three correctional facilities that the State Government proposes to re-locate from various metropolitan regions to Murray Bridge.This survey was completed by 252 employees in September 2008. It addressed various issues including respondents' current job satisfaction and future employment intentions in the context of the proposed relocations, current travel patterns to work and how the proposed relocation would affect them and perceptions about living in Murray Bridge. [further details]

Economic Impact of Prisons in Rural Areas: A Review of the Issues
This review focuses on the economic, social and employment impact of locating prisons in rural areas. It focuses on US evidence primarily because most states embarked on large prison building programmes over the last three decades with a particular focus on locating prisons in rural areas. It also makes reference to new prison building programmes in Ireland and Britain [further details]

Ageing Nation, Ageing Workforce -challenges for aged care provision in the 21st century
This paper highlights the importance of workforce planning and development strategies to retain and sustain the workforce, and identify the limitations imposed on those strategies by the absence of a comprehensive workforce database. [further details]

Workforce Development - Strategies and Lessons: Case Study Report
As awareness of the workforce development challenges facing Australia increases, public and private sectors organisations are initiating various workforce planning projects. Understanding the characteristics of these and learning from this experience is the purpose of this report. The report is one outcome from the Demographic change, ageing and the workforce: An integrated model to inform workforce development and planning in Australia project funded by the Australian Research Council with support from the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology and the former Office for Public Employment. [further details]

The Future at Work - Foundations for Workforce Development in Southern Adelaide
This report details a Strategic Framework for Workforce Development in Southern Adelaide and outlines a range of recommendations that seek to lay the foundations for successful workforce development in the region1. It provides an introduction to the concept of workforce development and identifies key objectives to inform strategic planning. [further details]

Complex not simple: The vocational education and training pathway from welfare to work
The welfare-to-work policy aims to encourage certain welfare recipients to pursue pathways that lead to paid employment. This report explores the role that the vocational education and training (VET) system can play in assisting people move from welfare to work. The researchers examined the experiences of VET students from the relevant welfare groups and sought the views of other key stakeholders such as TAFE staff and Centrelink personnel. Conclusions include that VET can play a positive role but that there needs to be collaboration between VET and income support sectors to ensure that potential barriers are overcome. [further details]

Workforce Information Service - e.Alert September 2006
This e-Alert outlines some of the key and current research projects taking place around issues of workforce and skills development from across the state and the country. [further details]

Temporary skilled migrants in Australia: employment circumstances and migration outcomes
The objectives of this study are to examine the reasons for migration, employment circumstances and migration outcomes of temporary skilled migrants who are holders of the 457 temporary business entry visa. The study also investigates the social and economic circumstances of these temporary entrants, their future residential and migration intentions and the likelihood of shifts to permanent settlement. [further details]

Women at Work: Towards a Women's Employment and Workforce Development Strategy, Part 2
This report reviews women's employment policy development and initiatives in South Australia in the context of innovative approaches currently underway in Europe. It is part two of a report examining women's employment trends and issues in South Australia. Report can be downloaded at http://www.officeforwomen.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?area_id=10&nav_id=599 [further details]

Women at Work: A statistical review of trends in women's employment in South Australia, Part 1
This report examines trends in women's employment in South Australia. It has been commissioned by the Office for Women and the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology to inform the development of policies by the South Australian Government. Report can be downloaded at http://www.officeforwomen.sa.gov.au/node/2 [further details]

Towards an understanding of the significance of family business closures in South Australia
While there is a significant body of research focusing on the reasons for family business closures in Australia, little is known about the specific impacts of these closures. This study seeks to focus attention on this under-researched area of family business. It does so in the context of concerns about family business capital depletion and the potential for this to accelerate as the age profile of family business owners increases over the next 10 years in line with population ageing. [further details]

Beyond the Unemployment Rate: Implications for South Australian Unemployment Policy
Given various concerns about the accuracy of the official measures of labour under utilisation in Australia, the aim of this paper is to estimate better the unemployment rate in South Australia since 1989, that is over the course of the last business cycle. This will be achieved by using three new measures of labour under utilisation that have been developed by Dr Barrett. [further details]