scholarly journals The Transition to Employment: An Analysis of Gross Flows from the House-hold Labour Force Survey

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Irvine
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Search Method ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The People ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Gross Flows ◽  
Over Time

Following a steady increase over about five years, the number of people unemployed finally began to fall towards the end of 1991. Changes in unemployment numbers were reflected, to a degree, in employment numbers. Employment fell during most of the late 1980s, and a sustained rise in employment numbers did not occur until early in 1992. Falls in unemployment occur as the number of people moving into unemployment is exceeded by the number of people moving out of unemployment. Similarly, increases in employment result from a net inflow into employment. Of all the people who are not employed in one period, some have a higher probability than others of being employed in the next period. Using gross-flows data from all the 35 quarters of the Household Labour Force Survey, this paper examines the effect of selected characteristics on the probability of moving into employment, and how the effect of these characteristics has changed over time. Four characteristics are examined: occupation sought, job search method, length of time since last employment and educational attainment.

scholarly journals Time Series Analysis of Disparity between Maori and non-Maori Labour Market Outcomes in the Household Labour Force Survey

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Chapple ◽  
David Rea
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Time Series Analysis ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Ethnic Classification ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Over Time

Disparity in labour market outcomes between Maori and non-Maori is examined using Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) data. The paper explores the nature of the ethnicity question and ethnic classification in the HLFS. It shows that there are substantial differences in labour market outcomes between those Maori who report only Maori ethnicity and those who report Maori and another ethnicity ("mixed" Maori). The paper then considers various methods of measuring disparity and uses these to examine the time series behaviour of disparity between 1985 and 1998. It concludes that disparity between Maori and non-Maori is greater today than in 1985. However, all this deterioration occurred between 1985 and 1992. Since 1992 disparity has been in decline. The bulk of time series variation in disparity between Maori and non-Maori has been driven by changes in outcomes for the sole Maori group. Mixed Maori, about a quarter share of the Maori ethnic group, has outcomes which closely track those of the non-Maori population over time.

scholarly journals Self-Employment and Labour Market Transitions in New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyi Shao ◽  
Mallika Kelkar
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Labour Market Transitions ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Market Transitions

Self-employment in New Zealand has been trending up in the past two years, following subdued growth between 2000 and 2010. Self-employed people made up 11.3% of total employed in the year to March 2012 (251,800 workers), compared with 10.1% in the year to March 2010. Self-employment is defined in this paper as those people operating their own business without employees. The paper explores time series trends in self-employment, in particular across three post-recession periods. Characteristics of self-employed workers are also identified. This paper also investigates movements in and out of self-employment in order to understand the recent growth in this type of employment. The analysis uses longitudinal Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) data. The HLFS provides official measures of a range of labour market indicators, including the number of people employed, unemployed and not in the labour force.

Research Note Problems in Monitoring the Safety Performance of British Manufacturing at the End of the Twentieth Century

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Injury Rate ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Fatality Rate ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Over Time

I have frequently expressed the view that the statistics for over three day injuries cannot be relied upon for the sort of temporal research on safety in which I have recently been engaged, for instance concerning the effectiveness of the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act (Nichols, 1989a; 1990). It has been suggested in the context of some related research (Nichols, 1989b; 1991a) that the over three day injury rate may actually be a useful indicator of safety in some respects and that the fatality rate may not be (Tombs, 1992).1 By contrast, the following short account looks to the future and considers whether, in the 1990s, a point has been reached when any official injury statistics for employees in UK manufacturing can provide satisfactory monitoring of improvements or otherwise in safety over time. First, the fatality rate is briefly discussed, then the rate for major injuries, then the rate for over three day injuries. Two other new sources of injury data are also briefly considered, the 1990 Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the 1990 Work Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS3).

scholarly journals New Zealand Income Survey and Other Sources of Income Data From Statistics New Zealand

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Archibald
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Income Data ◽  
Economic Survey ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Larger Sample

Many social scientists are familiar with the Household Economic Survey as a source of income data. However it is not the only source. The NZ Income Survey is run annually as a supplement to the June quarter Household Labour Force Survey. It provides a rich set of income data based on a much larger sample size. In this paper I will discuss the NZ Income Survey and compare it to some of the other SNZ sources of income data.

scholarly journals The Declining Work Week

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Hall
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
Hours Worked ◽  
The Past ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Weak Growth ◽  
Compositional Changes ◽  
Household Labour

Over the past five years average hours per worker, as recorded in the Household Labour Force Survey, have trended downwards. According to the frequently used measure of average hours per worker, total hours divided by total employment, people are now working 5% fewer hours than they were in 2004. This has contributed to weak growth in labour input over recent years. This paper uses data from the Household Labour Force Survey to examine what is behind the recent fall in hours worked per worker. It attempts to answer whether the fall has been due to compositional changes, such as population ageing and increased participation of women, or whether people are just working fewer hours than they used to. This paper estimates that up to 40% of the fall in average hours over the past five years is due to increased annual leave entitlements, while compositional changes are estimated to account for around 11%. The remainder of the fall in average hours appears to be due to a decline in hours worked within jobs. Fewer people working long hours and firms hoarding labour over the recent downturn are identified as two of the key explanations for this.

Job Finding in Australia

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Athanasou
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Australian Bureau ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Informal Labour ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
Job Finding

Although studies of the labour market have concentrated on employment and unemployment, there have been few Australian studies of job-search experiences. This report documents the methods used by people to obtain jobs in 1982, 1986 and 1990. It considers the proposition that informal job-seeking methods are more likely to lead to employment and that most jobs are obtained without prior knowledge of the vacancy. The data for this report were derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics monthly labour force survey of households (published and unpublished data) in 1982, 1986 and 1990. Around 1.8 million individuals had started in a new job and at least 35 per cent of jobs resulted from approaches made without prior knowledge that the job was available. Friends and relatives accounted for some 17 per cent of placements and in 25 per cent of cases, the employer approached the job seeker, bringing the proportion of informal methods to at least 77 per cent. Results confirm the views of experienced career counsellors that there is a large and informal labour market.

scholarly journals When two (or more) do not equal one: an analysis of the changing nature of multiple and single jobholding in Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 102425892110026
Author(s):  
Wieteke Conen ◽  
Paul de Beer
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Eu

The scope and structure of multiple jobholding and its consequences for multiple jobholders are changing in many Western economies. Only limited quantitative empirical knowledge is currently available on the changing features of multiple jobholding and whether the economic vulnerability of multiple jobholders has been changing over time. In this article we focus on the position and trends of multiple jobholders compared with single jobholders in Europe. We study this in terms of working hours, workers’ desire to work more hours, and in-work poverty. To that end, we analyse data since the early 2000s from the EU Labour Force Survey and from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Our findings show that multiple jobholding is a significant and increasing labour market phenomenon in many advanced economies, with changing characteristics, for example in terms of gender distribution and combinations of contracts. In-work poverty is relatively high among non-standard workers, but the findings do not indicate a deteriorating trend effect. In-work poverty seems to be on the rise among people who are single, for both single jobholders and multiple jobholders.

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