The University of Newcastle


Centre of Full Employment and Equity

Regional Development Workshop

October 21, 2003

Today's time is 05:07:28 on Saturday, September 6, 2008
CofFEE hosted its Regional Development Workshop at the University of Newcastle which sought to contrast and compare the the macro-oriented Job Guarantee proposal from CofFEE will be compared with the Social Entrepreneurs' approach based on privately motivated employment zones.

Morning papers:
Assoc. Prof Phillip O'Neill, CURS, University of Newcastle.
Reterritorialisation of economies and institutions in a period of prolonged prosperity

Dr. Peter Botsman, Consultant, Australian Prospect.
Employment Zones

Prof. William Mitchell, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
Macro constraints on regional development

Afternoon papers:

Assoc. Prof. Martin Watts, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
Job proximity and urban labour utilisation rates in the greater Sydney metropolitan region

Dr. James Juniper, CofFEE, University of Newcastle.
Reconciling regional Keynesianism and the dynamic competencies approach to regional development

There were morning and afternoon sessions for discussion of the papers and related issues.

Past Events

CofFEE Home

The Centre of Full Employment and Equity, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
Telephone: +61-2-4921 7283 Fax: +61-2-4921 8731, © Copyright 1998-2008     E-mail: coffee@newcastle.edu.au