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Kayoko Tsumori

Publications by Author

  1. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment and Workplace Relations Inquiry 2008

    Kayoko Tsumori, Peter Saunders | 11 Jul 2008 | Submissions

    We currently employ a bigger proportion of the working-age population (70%) than ever before. Nevertheless, to increase participation... Read More...

  2. The Road to Work: Freeing Up the Labour Market

    Kayoko Tsumori | 15 Jul 2005 | Policy Monographs

    This monograph outlines a framework for a more flexible, deregulated labour market which could strengthen employment, raise... Read More...

  3. How Union Campaigns on Hours and Casuals are Threatening Low-skilled Jobs

    Kayoko Tsumori | 22 Jan 2004 | Issue Analysis

    For several years now Australian unions have been waging campaigns to limit working hours and the growth in casual employment... Read More...

  4. Poor Laws (3) How to Reform the Award System and Create More Jobs

    Kayoko Tsumori | 10 Nov 2003 | Issue Analysis

    Despite the hype about enterprise bargaining and the individualisation of employment arrangements since the early 1990s,... Read More...

  5. Is the ‘Earnings Credit’ the Best Way to Cut the Dole Queues?

    Kayoko Tsumori | 13 May 2003 | Issue Analysis

    The 'earnings credit' proposed by the 'Five Economists' in 1998 will not sufficiently decrease joblessness in Australia,... Read More...

  6. Poor Laws (2): The Minimum Wage and Unemployment

    Kayoko Tsumori | 02 Dec 2002 | Issue Analysis

    More than half the poor in Australia are unemployed. It is joblessness, not low-paid jobs, that is the biggest source of... Read More...

  7. Poor Laws (1): The Unfair Dismissal Laws and Long-term Unemployment

    Kayoko Tsumori | 20 Aug 2002 | Issue Analysis

    Unfair dismissal laws stifle job creation and compound Australia’s high unemployment problem. Despite a near-decade of... Read More...

  8. COMMENT: Poor Concepts: 'Social Exclusion', Poverty and The Politics of Guilt

    Kayoko Tsumori, Peter Saunders | 06 Jun 2002 | POLICY Magazine

    The widespread use of the concept of 'social exclusion' to refer to poverty and deprivation in Australia is obscuring our... Read More...

  9. Poor Arguments: A Response to the Smith Family Report on Poverty in Australia

    Kayoko Tsumori | 16 Jan 2002 | Issue Analysis

    The welfare lobby, including The Smith Family and NATSEM, continues to inflate poverty statistics to advance a political... Read More...

Opinion & Commentary by Author

  1. Dismissal Law Benefits the Long-term Unemployed

    Kayoko Tsumori | 18 Mar 2003 | The Australian Financial Review

    Employment prospects for the long-term unemployed remain bleak, as the Senate is expected to reject the Fair Dismissal Bill... Read More

  2. Pay increases don't help the unemployed

    Kayoko Tsumori | 05 Dec 2002 | The Australian Financial Review

    A few weeks ago, the Australian Council of Trade Unions announced yet another 'living wage' claim. It plans to seek, in 2003,... Read More

  3. Only deregulation can create jobs

    Kayoko Tsumori | 21 Oct 2002 | The Australian Financial Review

    The unemployment rate in August 2002 stood at 6.2%—a high figure considering continuing economic growth. According to the... Read More

  4. Unfair dismissal laws deter firing and hiring

    Kayoko Tsumori | 26 Aug 2002 | The Australian Financial Review

    Joblessness is a major cause of poverty. Getting the poor into work is therefore the key to alleviating poverty. The problem,... Read More

  5. Poverty lines tangled: An influential report claiming that one in eight Australians lives in poverty is wrong

    Kayoko Tsumori | 17 Jan 2002 | The Age

    Our paper, Poor Arguments: A Response to the Smith Family Report on Poverty in Australia - questioning the claims that one... Read More

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