Australia: Increasing Indigenous Employment Rates - Closing The Gap

Australia: Increasing Indigenous Employment Rates - Closing The Gap Issues paper no. 3 produced for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse Matthew Gray, Boyd Hunter, and Shaun Lohoar, 2012 What we know Indigenous Australians have much lower employment rates than other Australians. Reasons for the lower employment rates include lower levels of education, training and skill levels (human capital), poorer health, living in areas with fewer labour market opportunities, higher levels of arrest...

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