Future job openings: Australia in the knowledge economy

This paper presents forecasts of growth, net replacement needs and net job openings to 2006 in Australia by the nine-way groupings of occupations first defined in Maglen and Shah (1999) [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 57.25]. It shows the way demand for labour is likely to be affected by technological change and globalisation. In this paper, Shah and Burke draw on the terminology in employed Maglen (2001) [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 68.192] to describe the nine groups of occupations. The authors first review the Maglen (2001) classification of occupations, then discuss some conceptual ... Show more

Authors: Shah, Chandra; Burke, Gerald

Corporate authors: Monash University-ACER. Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET)

Published: Clayton, Victoria, Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, 2003

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: iv, 20 p.

Access item: https://bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/files/6905624

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Subjects: Vocational education and trainingGlobalisationSkills and knowledgeManagementTechnologyResearchEconomicsEmploymentTeaching and learning

Keywords: Skill developmentStrategic planningTechnological changeOccupational researchKnowledge economyEmployment opportunityEmployment patternOccupationEducation and training needs

Geographic subjects: OceaniaAustraliaVictoria

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