The feature sessions are of variable length as noted below. The parallel session papers are 20 minutes for each presentation plus 10 minutes following each paper for questions and discussion.

8.30-8.50	Registration - Brennan Room in the Shortland Union Building with tea/coffee available.
8.50-9.00	Official Welcome from Professor Bill Mitchell, Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), University of Newcastle.
Session 1: 9.00-10.20	Feature addresses Room: Brennan Room Chair: Bill Mitchell Speaker 1: Argentina: A case study of the Plan Jefes de Hogar Desempleados or the employment road to recovery Dr Daniel Kostzer, Director of Macroeconomic Research and Coordination, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Argentina. The Heads of Household Job Guarantee approach helped solve Argentina's unemployment crisis after 2001 and provided an essential platform to allow them to restore economic stability. Speaker 2: Gender and the Job Guarantee: The impact of Argentina's Jefes program on female heads of poor households Professor L. Randall Wray, Research Director at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (C-FEPS) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. USA. Provides a detailed examination of the Head of Households Program in Argentina from the perspective of women and shows how we can learn from the experience in designing modern public sector job creation programs.
10.20-10.40	Morning Tea - Brennan Room
Session 2:	Parallel Session A - Brennan Room Chair: Anthea Bill	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Graham Wrightson
10.40-11.10	Beyond the unemployment rate: a reinterpretation of the Australian labour market Steven Barrett, Senada Nukic and Gerry Treuren, University of South Australia Refereed	Casualisation and poverty: the recent Australian experience Bill Lucarelli, Dept of Economics and Finance, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Refereed
11.10-11.40	The dynamics of job creation and job destruction in Australia Bill Mitchell, Jenny Myers and James Juniper, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	If the unemployment rate is so low, why do I feel so insecure Gillian Vogl, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. Refereed
Session 3: 11.40-12.20	Feature addresses Room: Brennan Room Chair: Bill Mitchell Current developments in welfare to work and regional employment policy David Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Jobs Australia Limited, Carlton South David has a wealth of experience in administering labour market programs and dealing with governments on welfare to work issues.
12.20-13.15	Lunch - Brennan Room
Session 4:	Parallel Session A - Brennan Room Chair: Martin Watts	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Jenny Myers
13.15-13.45	The impact of institutions on regional unemployment disparities in Europe Fioro Ernesto Caroleo and Gianluigi Coppola, Interdepartmental Centre of Research in Labour Economics and Economic Policy, University of Salerno, Italy Refereed	Employment and disability: some emerging questions Jenni Mays, QUT, Australia. Refereed
13.45-14.15	An exploratory spatial data analysis of unemployment in New Zealand 1986-2001 Bill Cochrane and David Neilson, Centre of Labour and Trade Union Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Refereed	Disability Support Pension claimants and work perceptions and barriers to entry Alan Morris, School of Social Sciences, UNSW, Australia. Refereed
14.15-14.45	Who benefits from employment growth? Bill Mitchell and Anthea Bill, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	Creating a culture of full employment for single parents - the Welfare to Work package and what we can learn from overseas Simon Smith, Catholic Welfare Australia. Refereed
14.45 - 15.05	Afternoon Tea - Brennan Room
Session 5:	Parallel Session A - Brennan Room Chair: James Juniper	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Riccardo Welters
15.10-15.40	Deregulation, macroeconomic restraint and the break-up of employment Greg Smith, Department of Economics, University of New England, Australia. Refereed	The health workforce, telemedicine and the challenge of an ageing population: towards high-performing health care systems Janet Dzator, School of Policy, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed
15.40-16.10	Expectations and unemployment John Nevile and Peter Kreisler, Department of Economics,UNSW, Australia. Refereed	The Welfare to Work package: Creating risks for people with mental illness Sally Cowling, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed
16.10-16.15	Short break to stretch and move between rooms
Session 6:	Parallel Session A - Brennan Room Chair: Emma Allen	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Victor Quirk
16.15-16.45	The commuting behaviour of NSW workers Martin Watts, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	Picking up the pieces? Lessons learnt from Newcastle's experience of remedial strategies pertaining to industry and unemployment following the closure of the BHP steelworks Alicia Payne, NATSEM, University of Canberra, Australia Non-refereed
16.45-17.15	Examining the relationship between commuting patterns, employment growth and unemployment in the Sydney Major Statistical Region Anthea Bill, Bill Mitchell and Martin Watts, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	Occupational health and safety issues concerning labour hire workers Harry Williams, School of Policy, University of Newcastle, Australia Refereed
17.15-17.45	The Job Guarantee and spatially integrated rural development Bruce McFarling, School of Policy, University of Newcastle, Australia. Non-refereed	From time to time? Non resident dads leisure with their kids John Jenkins and Kevin Lyons, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Non-refereed
17.45	End of Day 1 Sessions - Drinks will be available in the Godfrey Tanner Bar
17.50-18-10	Business Meeting in Treehouse - a short meeting of interested parties will be held to consider the organisation of the National Unemployment Conference in 2006.
18.30 for 19.00	Conference Dinner - University Club, near Shortland Union. The dinner is included in the conference registration fee. A bus will be available to take conference delegates back to the major hotels in Newcastle free of charge.

Friday, December 9, 2005

Session 7: 9.00-10.20	Feature addresses Room: Brennan Room Chair: Bill Mitchell Speaker 1: Were the Classics able to kill Keynes? Warren B. Mosler, Associate Fellow, Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Cambridge University, U.K. The Classics argued there can be no unemployment in the absense of monopoly, and pointed to what we now call 'labor inflexibility' as the cause of unemployment. Keynes countered that labour markets won't necessarily clear and there can be persistent unemployment even without monopoly and with what we call flexible labor markets. This presentation settles this argument and concludes that inadequate government deficits cause persistent unenmployment. Speaker 2: The Job Guarantee and Economic Stability Professor Scott Fullwiler, James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics at Wartburg College in Iowa, U.S.A. This paper simulates the Job Guarantee proposal in the U.S. using the Fairmodel in order to examine the stabilisation properties of the program.
Session 8:	Parallel Session A - Brennan Room Chair: Victor Quirk	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Graham Wrightson
10.20-10.50	The Job Guarantee feasibility study: preliminary findings Emma Allen, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	Migration and the supply of skilled labour: Australia Chandra Shah, Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University, Australia. Refereed
10.50-11.20	One fundamental value: Work for the Dole particpants views about work and mutual obligation Hilary Sawer, School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT, Australia. Non-refereed	The impact of labour market reform in China on the Australian economy James Zhang, School of Policy, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed
11.20-11.45	Morning Tea - Brennan Room
Session 9:	Parallel Session A - Brennan Room Chair: James Juniper	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Jenny Myers
11.45-12.15	Health effects of female labour force participation Robert LaJeunesse, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Non-refereed	Skills shortages in Australia: concepts and reality Bill Mitchell and Victor Quirk, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed
12.15-12.45	The strength of informal networks: implications for formal state/community network partnerships Ed Carson and Lorraine Kerr, University of South Australia, Australia. Refereed	The allocation of greenfield land between environmental protection and sustainability and urban development in the coastal zone of NSW Paul Ross and James Juniper, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed
12.45-13.15	Search behaviour and casualties of the (dual) labour market Bill Mitchell, Joan Muysken and Riccardo Welters, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia, CoFFEE-Europe, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands and CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia, respectively. Refereed	Community development reporting in corporate social responsibility, citizenship and sustainability reports Robert Gale, Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW, Australia. Refereed
13.15-14.00	Lunch - Brennan Room
Session 10: 14.00-14.40	Feature address Room: Brennan Room Chair: Bill Mitchell The United States and her Creditors: can the symbiosis last? Dr Dimitri Papadimitiou, President of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College, NY State, USA. Dimitri is a leading policy oriented researcher in the USA and regularly contributes to the debate concerning unemployment.
Session 11:	Parallel Session A - Brennan Room Chair: Anthea Bill	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: James Juniper
14.40-15.10	Taking the low road: Minimum wage determination under 'Work Choices' Sally Cowling and Bill Mitchell, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	Faint praise for a chimera: selectivity versus universalism in social policy John Tomlinson, QUT, Australia. Refereed
15.10-15.40	Institutions and the labour market: examining the benefits Tom Van Veen, CofFEE-Europe, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Non-refereed	Methods and motivation of social domination Victor Quirk, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed
15.40	Conference Close - with Afternoon Tea Announcements for 2005 and Thanks.

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