- Title
- Why do disparities in employment growth across metropolitan and regional space occur?
- Creator
- Mitchell, William; Carlson, Ellen
- Relation
- 5th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 10th National Conference on Unemployment. The Full Employment Imperative: 5th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 10th National Conference on Unemployment: Proceedings, Refereed Papers (Callaghan, NSW 10-12 December, 2003) p. 121-151
- Relation
- http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2003/abstracts.cfm
- Publisher
- Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2003
- Description
- In this paper we seek to extend the work of Mitchell and Carlson (2003) to develop a better understanding of the disparities in employment growth across regions which appear to account for the observed persistence in the disparities with respect to unemployment outcomes. There is very little research on this issue in Australia. The paper also seeks to determine whether the metropolitan areas have benefited from favourable industry locations relative to the "de-industrialised" regional areas. Using dynamic shift-share analysis (Arcelus, 1984; Barff and Knight, 1988) we decompose regional employment growth into a national growth component, an industry mix component and a regional growth component and examine industry level data by full-time and part-time employment to relate these shares to the observed employment growth differentials between the metropolitan and regional labour markets. We also examine the regional impact of the increasing significance of part-time work in overall employment creation in Australia by decomposing the employment dynamics into part-time and full-time components to explore the spatial disparities more closely. The research will assist in tracing the types of influences that public policy can have to reduce the negative consequences of the changing spatial employment structure.
- Subject
- employment growth; unemployment; Australia; labour market; regional; metropolitan; disparities
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35419
- Identifier
- uon:3917
- Identifier
- ISBN:192070132X
- Language
- eng
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