Recruitment in an Australian Labor Market

The comparative method can be a powerful instrument in understanding the complex relationship of institutions and truman behavior. This article describes an attempt to apply this method to the study of labor markets. The authors compare the sources and areas of recruitment for different occupational...

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Published in:Industrial & labor relations review 1957-07, Vol.10 (4), p.579-587
Main Authors: Carr, Cecil E., Dufty, Norman F.
Format: Article
Language:English
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1956
Advertising
Advertising campaigns
Australia-United States comparisons
Clerical work
Employee recruitment
Employment
Employment agencies
Executives
Hiring
Labor
Labor management relations
Labor markets
Labor unions
Labour
Metropolitan areas
Perth
Perth-San Francisco comparisons
Recruiting of labor
Recruitment
Retail trade
Skilled labour
Supply and demand
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Summary:The comparative method can be a powerful instrument in understanding the complex relationship of institutions and truman behavior. This article describes an attempt to apply this method to the study of labor markets. The authors compare the sources and areas of recruitment for different occupational groups in Perth, Australia with those observed in the San Francisco Bay Area by F. Theodore Malm and reported on in the July 1954 issue of this "Review." The results reported in this article refer, however, only to the two areas chosen for comparison. While Perth may be typical of Australian urban labor markets generally, because of the peculiarities of the San Francisco Bay Area--for example, the high degree of unionization anti relatively small size of employing units--the results cannot be taken as necessarily representative of differences in recruiting patterns elsewhere in the two countries. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)
ISSN:0019-7939
2162-271X
DOI:10.1177/001979395701000405