http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/ en Copyright The University of Adelaide 2008 The University of Adelaide web.services@adelaide.edu.au daily 720 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub12283.html DATE: Monday, 29 September 2008 SUMMARY: This paper highlights the importance of workforce planning and development strategies to retain and sustain the workforce, and identify the limitations imposed on those strategies by the absence of a comprehensive workforce database. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub12163.html DATE: Friday, 12 September 2008 SUMMARY: As awareness of the workforce development challenges facing Australia increases, public and private sectors organisations are initiating various workforce planning projects. Understanding the characteristics of these and learning from this experience is the purpose of this report. The report is one outcome from the Demographic change, ageing and the workforce: An integrated model to inform workforce development and planning in Australia project funded by the Australian Research Council with support from the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology and the former Office for Public Employment. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub11943.html DATE: Friday, 15 August 2008 SUMMARY: This report details a Strategic Framework for Workforce Development in Southern Adelaide and outlines a range of recommendations that seek to lay the foundations for successful workforce development in the region1. It provides an introduction to the concept of workforce development and identifies key objectives to inform strategic planning. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub10803.html DATE: Monday, 7 April 2008 SUMMARY: The welfare-to-work policy aims to encourage certain welfare recipients to pursue pathways that lead to paid employment. This report explores the role that the vocational education and training (VET) system can play in assisting people move from welfare to work. The researchers examined the experiences of VET students from the relevant welfare groups and sought the views of other key stakeholders such as TAFE staff and Centrelink personnel. Conclusions include that VET can play a positive role but that there needs to be collaboration between VET and income support sectors to ensure that potential barriers are overcome. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub7185.html DATE: Monday, 30 October 2006 SUMMARY: This e-Alert outlines some of the key and current research projects taking place around issues of workforce and skills development from across the state and the country. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub4182.html DATE: Thursday, 5 January 2006 SUMMARY: The objectives of this study are to examine the reasons for migration, employment circumstances and migration outcomes of temporary skilled migrants who are holders of the 457 temporary business entry visa. The study also investigates the social and economic circumstances of these temporary entrants, their future residential and migration intentions and the likelihood of shifts to permanent settlement. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub4162.html DATE: Thursday, 22 December 2005 SUMMARY: This report reviews women's employment policy development and initiatives in South Australia in the context of innovative approaches currently underway in Europe. It is part two of a report examining women's employment trends and issues in South Australia. Report can be downloaded at http://www.officeforwomen.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?area_id=10&nav_id=599 http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub4161.html DATE: Thursday, 22 December 2005 SUMMARY: This report examines trends in women's employment in South Australia. It has been commissioned by the Office for Women and the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology to inform the development of policies by the South Australian Government. Report can be downloaded at http://www.officeforwomen.sa.gov.au/node/2 http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub4122.html DATE: Thursday, 15 December 2005 SUMMARY: While there is a significant body of research focusing on the reasons for family business closures in Australia, little is known about the specific impacts of these closures. This study seeks to focus attention on this under-researched area of family business. It does so in the context of concerns about family business capital depletion and the potential for this to accelerate as the age profile of family business owners increases over the next 10 years in line with population ageing. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub1061.html DATE: Monday, 29 November 2004 SUMMARY: Given various concerns about the accuracy of the official measures of labour under utilisation in Australia, the aim of this paper is to estimate better the unemployment rate in South Australia since 1989, that is over the course of the last business cycle. This will be achieved by using three new measures of labour under utilisation that have been developed by Dr Barrett. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub681.html DATE: Sunday, 1 August 2004 SUMMARY: The social and economic environment is a major determinant of population wellbeing in South Australia. The purpose of this report is to deepen our understanding of the impact that social, physical and economic factors have on health and wellbeing, and to describe the distribution of some of these factors across the South Australian population. The report can be downloaded at http://www.publichealth.gov.au/ http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub162.html DATE: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 SUMMARY: With Mitsubishi in crisis, the pressure is building on South Australia to find new business investment and employment generators - sooner rather than later.John Spoehr discusses the closure and downsizing of South Australia's Mitsubishi plants and and discusses hot the State can move forward in the current economic climate. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub201.html DATE: Sunday, 2 May 2004 SUMMARY: What motivates low-income welfare recipients who choose to relocate from rural and regional areas to metropolitan cities? What do they trade off in the move and what do they gain? These questions are examined in the final report of this project. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub181.html DATE: Monday, 1 March 2004 SUMMARY: Prime Minister John Howard has agreed to a trade deal with the United States that puts Australia's wider trade interests at risk and poses a particular threat to South Australia. http://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub682.html DATE: Sunday, 1 September 2002 SUMMARY: This report provides a regional profile of the education, training and employment experiences of young people in Northern Adelaide.