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Retrenchment and Labour Market Flows in Australia

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  • Iain Campbell
  • Michael Webber

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Retrenchment is a significant element of current labour restructuring in Australia. This article situates retrenchment and the experiences of retrenchees since the late 1980s within a broader context of labour market flows. The article refers to labour flows at the level of the individual enterprise but it concentrates on the aggregate level ofthe national economy, drawing mainly on official Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. It points to several important factors that are neglected in contemporary discussion of the experience of retrenchment — the effects of periods of job expansion and job contraction, industry patterns of retrenchment and labour turnover, enterprise-level retrenchment and recruitment practices, and the place of ‘precarious’ employment as an increasingly significant point of departure and destination in labour flows.

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  • Iain Campbell & Michael Webber, 1996. "Retrenchment and Labour Market Flows in Australia," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 7(1), pages 88-119, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:7:y:1996:i:1:p:88-119
    DOI: 10.1177/103530469600700106
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