6239.0 - Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Australia, Jul 2008 to Jun 2009

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 08/12/2009

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Main Features Conceptual Framework Summary of findings About this Release Over 400,000 women available to take up work, but not looking for work: ABS (Media Release)	Provides information about people who are 18 years and over who are unemployed, not in the labour force or worked less than 16 hours. Data from this survey are used to obtain a better understanding of the factors that influence people to join or leave the labour force. By knowing the barriers people have to wanting, finding or taking up (more) employment a range of incentives to labour force participation can be indirectly identified. Estimates can be cross-classified by demographics such as state, sex, age, marital status and country of birth, as well as labour force characteristics. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.