Population ageing and the employment surge among older australian workers

People and Place

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-15

  Healy, Ernest ^a  

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AGING POPULATION; ELDERLY POPULATION; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR PARTICIPATION; LABOR SUPPLY; TREND ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 68949155452     PISSN: 10394788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. 'Later pension aids prosperity', Australian Financial Review, 14May2009,p. 15
2. G. Gray, 'Address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia about the federal government's plan for meeting the growing demand for skilled labour*, speech delivered on behalf of the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Evans, 27 Friday June 2008
3. Gray, 'Address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia about the federal government's plan for meeting the growing demand for skilled labour, 2008, ibid.
4. Gray, 'Address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia about the federal government's plan for meeting the growing demand for skilled labour, 2008, ibid.
5. Gray, 'Address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia about the federal government's plan for meeting the growing demand for skilled labour, 2008, ibid.
6. Gray, 'Address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia about the federal government's plan for meeting the growing demand for skilled labour, 2008, ibid.
7. B. Birrell, E. Healy and B. Kinnaird, 'Immigration and the nation building and jobs plan', CPUR Bulletin, Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University, February 2009
8. Department of Treasury, Intergenerational Report 2007, ISBN 0 642 74384 3, p. vii.
9. Department of Treasury, Intergenerational Report 2007, ibid., pp. 10-31
10. The first Intergenerational Report, published in 2002 as part of the 2002-2003 Federal Budget, assumed net overseas migration to be 90,000 per year for projection purposes.
11. 11The ABS Labour Force Survey data used to generate these charts uses the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO) 2nd Edition, 1996.
12. For example see Business Council of Australia, '50+ a business guide for supporting older workers', August 2003.
13. The projection modelling commences in 2004.
14. Each scenario also assumes a total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.8 and medium longevity through to 2018.
15. Again, assuming TFR of 1.8 and net overseas migration of 90,000 persons and medium longevity.
16. 'Tough new regime for jobless-unemployment to hit lm', The Australian, 1 May 2009 p. 1
17. Each of these projections assumes the incremental increase in labour force participation for persons aged 55 years and over indicated for scenario 1 above.