1. The Two Key Labour Market Problems
Although about two-thirds of casual employees work part-time and about two-thirds of part-time employees are casual, the proportion of full-time workers who are employed on a casual basis has almost doubled in the last decade to reach 12 percent in 2000(ABS, 6310.0). The increasing prominence of "nontraditional" employment has raised concern both in the population at large and among economists. ... For men, the change is even greater, more than doubling from 5.5% in 1980 to just fewer than 13% now. ... Welfare dependency: The proportion of the working-age population receiving unemployment ...
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