The University of Newcastle


Centre of Full Employment and Equity

Creating a Culture of Full Employment Conference

December 8-9, 2005

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Please note the deadline of September 2 for submission of abstracts to refereed stream and September 23 for submission of abstracts to the non-refereed stream.

The 2-day program will cover the following themes and papers are invited that address them:

  • Cultural issues in the achievement of full employment;
  • Social networks and their role in local labour market outcomes;
  • welfare to work issues;
  • Placing the proposed industrial relations changes in the context of full employment;
  • macroeconomic policy and full employment;
  • long-term, youth and indigenous unemployment;
  • employment policy for the disabled;
  • policy responses to unemployment.
  • GDP growth, jobs, and the environment;
  • the future of work including issues regarding sustainability and job design;
  • regional employment/unemployment;
  • social, economic and environmental sustainability;
  • creating more secure employment and environmental futures.
  • Spatial analysis in social sciences focusing on local and regional labour markets and housing.

The following guidelines are applicable. See also the Guidelines for papers for more detail on format.

  1. Presenters may elect to have their paper considered for the refereed or the non-refereed stream. Refereed papers will be included in a printed volume of conference proceedings (which will satisfy DEST E1 referred conference proceedings requirements), while non-refereed papers will be available on CD and the Internet.
  2. Abstracts for the refereed stream should be submitted by September 2, 2005;
  3. Abstracts for the non-refereed stream should be submitted by September 23, 2005.
  4. As the proceedings will be distributed at the Conference, draft refereed papers must be submitted by October 24, 2005 and non-refereed papers must be submitted by November 25, 2005.
  5. Refereeing will take place between October 24 and November 11 and papers will be returned to authors for final editing on November 11, 2005 or before as the referees comments come back. Authors must then return final versions of their papers by November 18, 2005 to allow for the production and printing of the Volume.
  6. The refereeing process and editorial requirements (word length etc.) are described under the Guidelines for papers.

Abstracts should be submitted to the CofFEE office.

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