Local Labour Markets and Long‐term Unemployment: A Further Analysis

Abstract

Recent work carried out by the Centre for Work and Labour Market Studies into the labour market characteristics of the long‐term unemployed in the South Coast Region of New South Wales bears a close similarity in scope and methodology to the work by Barry Thomas and the Study group at Durham University reported in this journal in 1990 (Thomas, B., “Long‐term Unemployment: A Local Labour Market Study”, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 11 No. 1, 1990, pp. 13‐20). However, sufficient differences emerge between the two studies to indicate that a set of generalised propositions on the make‐up and motivations of the long‐term unemployed may still be some way off and is likely to contain significant country‐specific components.

Citation

Mangan, J. and Phibbs, P. (1991), "Local Labour Markets and Long‐term Unemployment: A Further Analysis", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 12 No. 7, pp. 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000000891