'Indigenous Employment: A Story of Continuing Growth', Topical Issue 2/2013

Matthew Gray, Boyd Hunter, Monica Howlett

    Research output: Working paper

    Abstract

    Recent reporting suggests that there has been no growth in Indigenous employment since the mid-2000s, or even that employment has decreased slightly. Such reports focus on changes in a measure of employment which includes Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) participants. However, when CDEP is excluded from the employment measure a very different picture emerges one of a strong and sustained increase in non-CDEP employment since 1994. Failure to clearly focus on non-CDEP employment can lead to misleading conclusions about employment growth and the effectiveness of government policy aimed at increasing non-CDEP employment.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationCanberra, Australia.
    PublisherCentre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU
    Pages1-12pp
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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