Job pathways: employment retention and advancement

This four-year study, supported by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant, aimed to identify the factors that assist people who have been unemployed to retain jobs and build career paths.

The Brotherhood partnered with the University of Melbourne, the University of Bristol and the London School of Economics.

The findings will be important for employment policy development in Australia, indicating ways to improve the human capital of disadvantaged entrants to the labour market and thereby reduce long-term poverty and social exclusion.

This research was lead by Dina Bowman.

Contact research@bsl.org.au

Report

Abraham Chigavazira, Dina Bowman and Rosanna Scutella 2013, Job retention and advancement of disadvantaged jobseekers: a synthesis of findings (PDF, 227 KB), published by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne

Articles and papers

Yin King Fok, Rosanna Scutella and Roger Wilkins 2013, The low-pay no-pay cycle: are there systematic differences across demographic groups? (PDF, 558 KB), published by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne

Dina Bowman 2011, ‘What would help people to gain and retain decent work? Research insights’ , Brotherhood Comment, August, pp. 4–5. (PDF, 310 KB)

Dina Bowman 2011, ‘What would help? Insights from low paid workers and disadvantaged jobseekers’, paper presented to the Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 7 July.

Daniel Perkins, Lauren Tyrrell and Rosanna Scutella 2009, ‘Is career advancement important to disadvantaged jobseekers? Analysis of a large survey of disadvantaged jobseekers‘, paper presented to the Australian Social Policy Conference, 8–10 July.

Lauren Tyrrell 2009, ‘Getting ahead: is career advancement important to disadvantaged job seekers?’ , Brotherhood Comment, August, pp. 4–5. (PDF, 272 KB)

Lauren Tyrrell 2008, ‘Tracking employment progress: the Employment Retention and Advancement Project’ , Brotherhood Comment, November, p. 9. (PDF, 442 KB)

Daniel Perkins and Rosanna Scutella 2008, ‘Improving employment retention and advancement of low-paid workers’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 97–114.

Associated report

Daniel Kuehnle and Rosanna Scutella 2011, Employment retention in the economic downturn , Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (PDF, 548 KB)