- Title
- A 21st century solution to skill shortages in Australia
- Creator
- Quirk, Victor
- Relation
- Labour Underutilisation, Skills Shortages and Social Inclusion: Incorporating the 10th Path to Full Employment Conference and 15th National Conference on Unemployment. Labour Underutilisation, Skills Shortages and Social Inclusion: Incorporating the 10th Path to Full Employment Conference and 15th National Conference on Unemployment: Proceedings (Callaghan, N.S.W. 4-5 December 2008) p. 169-184
- Relation
- http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2008/index.cfm
- Publisher
- Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This paper argues for specific, major, institutional reforms capable of building a high-skilled internationally competitive labour force in Australia. It argues for replacing the current policy of maintaining labour underutilisation as a productivity driver, with a national system of counter-cyclical public sector employment (Job Guarantee) and skills formation infrastructure, organised on a regional basis. The first section introduces the issue of Australia's deficient skill formation capacity. Sections 2 & 3 summarise deficits in key labour market institutions, the Job Network and the tertiary education sector. Section 4 highlights the chronic failure of the private sector to provide supervised opportunities for novices to undertake skilled work. Section 5 argues that the state has a unique responsibility to act, while section 6 proposes necessary components of an institutional framework. The conclusion addresses the political question of opposition to full employment.
- Subject
- labour force; reforms; labour underutilisation; productivity; Job Network; tertiary education sector; labour market institutions
- Identifier
- uon:6176
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/802720
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780980503548
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