In the publication Growth Platforms for a Competitive Australia, McKinsey & Co. (1995) compared Australia’s relative economic prosperity with those of leading countries such as the United States. The report highlighted that Australia’s GDP per capita is 30 percent behind the best performing country, the United States. Most of this gap is due to lower labour productivity. The report was based on...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the uneven rise in prosperity between 1999 and 2008 accounted for differential increases in life expectancy in English local authorities. DESIGN Longitudinal ecological study. SETTING 324 local authorities in England, classified by their baseline level of deprivation. M: ain outcome measures Multivariable regression was used to investigate the association be...

The relevance and continuing existence of industrial relations, as a field of academic study, is facing a number of challenges, particularly in English-speaking countries, as union membership declines, collective bargaining coverage shrinks and the number of strikes wanes each year. yet issues of employment and workplace relations remain significant to economic prosperity and social harmony, pa...

The employment of university graduates has always been a matter great concern to educational administrative departments and governments at all levels. EPI (employment prosperity index) is weather vane that reflects the situation labor market, it also an important reference for national economic situation. This paper constructs college students’ from different aspects, such as environment, emplo...

Due to the growing importance of metropolitan regions for the economy this work aims at analyzing what fosters economic prosperity. We propose the theory that creativity generates new ideas and enhances the entrepreneurship level in the city. In this research the focus lies on metropolitan regions, located around 30 Informational World Cities, which are prototypical cities of the knowledge soci...

Technological change is driving demand for skilled labor and spurring an upgrading of skills across economies. The emergence of a knowledge-based economy (k-economy) has spawned a “new” notion of workplace literacy, changing the relationship between employers and employees. The traditional pledge where employees expect a stable or lifelong employment will no longer apply. New ideas or intellect...