- Title
- Labour underutilisation in metropolitan labour markets in Australia: individual characteristics, personal circumstances and local labour markets
- Creator
- Baum, Scott; Bill, Anthea; Mitchell, Bill
- Relation
- Urban Studies: an International Journal for Research in Urban Studies Vol. 45, Issue 5-6, p. 1193 - 1216
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098008089865
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- There has been a growing awareness that the issue of labour market disadvantage is substantially greater than merely considering unemployment and the ability to find a job. There is an increasing literature that points to the advantages of considering a broader concept which accounts not only for those people who are traditionally unemployed, but also for individuals who are underemployed and those who are sub-unemployed or discouraged workers. Taking multidimensional survey and census data for Australian metropolitan regions, this paper applies a broad employability framework to an understanding of labour underutilisation which presents the risk of underutilisation as a function of individual characteristics, personal circumstances and the impact of local labour market characteristics. The analysis finds that the risk of labour underutilisation is associated with a range of individual characteristics and personal circumstances together with the characteristics of the metropolitan local labour market.
- Subject
- labour market disadvantage; unemployment; underemployment; Australia; labour underutilisation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927720
- Identifier
- uon:10225
- Identifier
- ISSN:0042-0980
- Language
- eng
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