CofFEE

Centre of Full Employment and Equity

The Challenge to Restore Full Employment

Incorporating the 9th Path to Full Employment Conference and 14th National Conference on

6-7 December 2007 The University of Newcastle

Proceedings Refereed papers

Edited by Victor Quirk and Graham Wrightson Table of Contents

Refereed Papers

Potential for the creation of socially meaningful employment across the Australian landscape Emma Allen Centre of Full Employment and Equity, The University of Newcastle 1 Valuing the Role of Care in Ageing Societies Emma Allen and Beth Cook Centre of Full Employment and Equity, The University of Newcastle 17 The failed full employability paradigm Emma Allen, Beth Cook, William Mitchell and Martin Watts, Centre of Full Employment and Equity, The University of Newcastle 31 Leveraging Training Outcomes on Public Construction Projects Siobhan Austen and Richard Seymour, Curtin University 52 Labour Underutilisation in Metropolitan Labour Markets: Individual and Contextual Factors Scott Baum, Griffith University, Bill Mitchell andAnthea Bill, CofFEE, The University of Newcastle 66 Labour Reform and Labour Mobility within Cities: have the Hartz reforms succeeded? Anthea Bill, Bill Mitchell and Riccardo Welters Centre of Full Employment and Equity, The University of Newcastle 85 U.S. Welfare Reform and the Weil-Being of Low-Income Children: Cautionary Tales for Australia Sally Cowling, Uniting Care Burnside 104 How the WorkChoices and Welfare to Work reforms are affecting people in one region of New South Wales: Preliminary findings Sandy Darab and Yvonne Hartman School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University 116 Local Government and Local Employment Development Julie Douglas School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia 128 A 'Just Transition' to a clean-energy economy in a climate-change hot spot: the Hunter Valley coalfields of New South Wales, Australia Geoff Evans School of Environmental & Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle 139 Dutch institutional reforms since the 1980's: a critical assessment of the OECD institutional indicators Ruud Gerards, Manuel Mutters and Joan Muysken CoJFEE-Europe, Department of , 157 A Critique of Knowledge-Based Development James Juniper School of Economics, Politics and Tourism, University of Newcastle and Associate of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity 173 Financing Schemes by Oil Revenue, The Case of Iran Zahra Karimi Department of Economics, University of Mazandaran, Iran 185 Comparative Measurement of Unemployment Revisited Gennadi Kazakevitch Department of Economics, Monash University 197 Human Resources or Human Beings: The Effects of WorkChoices on Workers Peter Kriesler andJ. W. Nevile Centre for Applied Economic Research, University of New South Wales 209 Crowding in or crowding out? Stefan Kuehn, Joan Muysken, Tom van Veen Department of Economics, University of Maastricht 218 The future of paid work in "post-industrial" society: Labour's Evacuation from the Fordist System Robert LaJeunesse School of Economics, Politics and Tourism, The University of Newcastle 232 Identifying functional regions in Australia using hierarchical aggregation techniques William Mitchell, Anthea Bill and Martin Watts Centre of Full Employment and Equity, The University of Newcastle 245

Full employment does not mean low unemployment William Mitchell, CofFEE, The University of Newcastle and Joan Muysken, Department of Economics, University of Maastricht 274 Beware the forks in the road: Trifurcation of career paths in the Australian higher education sector Andrew Nadolny School of Economics, Politics and Tourism, University of Newcastle 291 Activation, inclusion and capabilities Daniel Perkins Research and Policy Centre, Brotherhood ofSt Laurence 300 The Job Guarantee of 1848 Victor Quirk Centre of Full employment and Equity, The University of Newcastle 313 Labour Market Competition, Coalition Industrial Relations Reform and the Demise of the Collective Principle Greg Smith School of Business, Economics and Public Policy, University of New England 326 The impact of education on employment outcomes for people with mental illness Gorica Trajkovic CofFEE, The University of Newcastle '. 332 Developing Spatial Measures of Residential Segregation using Kernel Density Estimation Martin J. Watts Centre of Full Employment & Equity, The University of Newcastle 344 The Other Side of Precariousness: The Costs of Job Loss Sally Wetter Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne 357