DSpace Collection:https://hdl.handle.net/10620/184152024-03-29T01:29:53Z2024-03-29T01:29:53ZImpacts on the World of WorkBurns, Robert Bhttps://hdl.handle.net/10620/191902023-07-26T04:39:55Z2023-07-17T00:00:00ZTitle: Impacts on the World of Work
Authors: Burns, Robert B
Abstract: Home The Human Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Chapter
Impacts on the World of Work
Robert B. Burns
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First Online: 17 July 2023
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The crucial issues of this chapter focus on the way Covid has affected unemployment levels, where work is conducted, and what personal benefits employees seek from work now. Restrictions imposed by national governments in developed countries involving quarantine periods, drastically reduced travel limitations, social distancing, mask wearing, limitations on numbers gathering together, all conspired to limit work opportunities and consumer ability to seek purchases, leading to economic slowdown with minimal activity for, and even closure of, many businesses. Hence, unemployment surged and many employees, where feasible, worked from home. The pros and cons of work from home (WFH), including the employee preference for continuation in the hybrid form, are reviewed along with discussion of the ‘Zoom’ effect. Employees are showing increasing propensity to move from their preCovid employment and seeking either more WFH, or to be entrepreneurial or joining more caring companies that have employee wellbeing more central in their philosophy. The pandemic has changed the priory rankings of reasons why people work with money less salient while intrinsic motivations like achievement, self-esteem, personal satisfaction and better life-work balance in a flexible system will contribute more significantly in the future.2023-07-17T00:00:00ZConsent to Data Linkage: Experimental Evidence from an Online PanelEdwards, BenBiddle, Nicholashttps://hdl.handle.net/10620/191142023-02-24T04:00:55Z2021-03-22T00:00:00ZTitle: Consent to Data Linkage: Experimental Evidence from an Online Panel
Authors: Edwards, Ben; Biddle, Nicholas
Editors: Peter Lynn
Abstract: Longitudinal surveys have tended to have a strong focus on primary data collection, with most of the analytical information obtained directly from interviews. The next generation of longitudinal studies will likely make extensive use of linked data to augment survey responses. However, this will occur in the context of declining response rates to surveys and in consent to data linkage. Surveys on probability based online panels have several advantages in that they are cheaper and faster to implement than traditional longitudinal surveys but also have the capacity to deliver complex survey instruments. There are different types of information linked to survey data, with consent usually asked for specific sources of data. Evidence from observational studies where consent to link different types of data has been requested report consistent patterns of consent rates with consent to link highest for education records followed by health, with income or economic records having substantially lower levels of consent.2021-03-22T00:00:00ZChapter 3 Overcoming the ‘Crisis of Nonrelation’ through Formal InnovationKlein, Dorotheehttps://hdl.handle.net/10620/190842023-01-11T03:19:07Z2021-10-07T00:00:00ZTitle: Chapter 3 Overcoming the ‘Crisis of Nonrelation’ through Formal Innovation
Authors: Klein, Dorothee
Abstract: The 2016 report of the Australian Council of Social Service (acoss) documents the widespread poverty and the precarious living conditions prevalent in numerous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Analysing data from the 2014 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (hilda) survey, the report states that “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were more likely to experience poverty than other Australians, and are less likely to ‘exit welfare’ than other Australians” (acoss 37). As the 2020 hilda survey found, rates of material deprivation are still significantly higher for Indigenous people than for non-Indigenous Australians, thus making them more likely to live in poverty, which is conceived of “as relative deprivation or socio-economic disadvantage” (Wilkins et al. 54, 35). Moreover, according to the 2020 Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report, even though the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians has improved for many indicators over the last two decades, including employment rates, there has been little change or even a worsening in others areas, such as imprisonment and youth detention, alcoholism and substance misuse (Steering Committee 6). And even in areas such as employment, which has seen improvements, at least until 2008, the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in terms of their respective employment rates is still considerable with around 49 percent for Indigenous people compared to around 75 percent for non-Indigenous Australians (Closing the Gap 65).12021-10-07T00:00:00ZTransnationalism, Intersectionality and Immigrant Lives: Critical Issues and Approaches to International MigrationCheng, ZhimingTani, MassimilianoWang, Benhttps://hdl.handle.net/10620/189992023-01-02T23:16:28Z2022-02-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Transnationalism, Intersectionality and Immigrant Lives: Critical Issues and Approaches to International Migration
Authors: Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Ben
Editors: Edward Shizha and Edward Makwarimba
Abstract: This chapter explores the relationship between the acquisition of English language skills and subsequent labour market outcomes of refugees and other groups in humanitarian need (e.g. asylum seekers) – which we jointly refer to as ‘humanitarian migrants’ in this chapter - using panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA) survey. Since 2013 the Australian Government’s Department of Social Services has surveyed humanitarian migrants on a wide range of topics to understand the wellbeing and experiences in Australia of this group of settlers. The dataset surveys refugees and other humanitarian visa holders, and tracks individual humanitarian migrants on an annual basis. It is the largest longitudinal survey with this information in Australia. Our analysis pays particular attention to the role of language skills in recovering their pre-settlement human capital in the host country’s labour market, and the relevance of continuing public funding to provide formal language training programs to the humanitarian migrants who most need language skills.2022-02-01T00:00:00Z