Papers by Natalie Jackson
Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2008
As in other western industrialised countries the structural ageing of the Australian population h... more As in other western industrialised countries the structural ageing of the Australian population has significant labour market implications. Government has responded with a range of policies to persuade older workers to abandon early retirement and/or remain in the workforce past traditional retirement ages. But whether this generation of workers will be prepared to change their retirement plans in response to policy encouragement, and whether current policy measures will translate into significant numbers of older workers extending their labour force participation is uncertain. Using the Australian Survey of Retirement Attitudes and Motivations (ASRAM) a recently completed, nationally representative survey of Australian workers aged 40-59 years we find that while the Government message about working longer is getting through, older workers are relatively unresponsive to current policy measures. Other policies, especially policies outside the financial realm, are needed to maximise the number of older Australians in the labour force.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the retirement intentions of Australian Baby Boomers by occupation. ... more ABSTRACT This paper examines the retirement intentions of Australian Baby Boomers by occupation. Workers from 14 of 35 occupations expect to retire earlier than the national average of 64.3 years, with 'white collar' workers more likely to be among the early retiring, and 'blue collar' workers among the late. Early-retiring intentions will be reinforced by short gaps between preferred and expected retirement age, relatively high levels of financial security and formal discussion about retirement, yet lower than average levels of desire for transition-to-retirement arrangements; late-retiring intentions will be reinforced by more or less the opposite. Early-retiring occupations are also the largest and have the potential to cost the economy 1.26 million person-years of working life. The findings indicate that policy interventions should be targeted, that interventions should include non-economic inducements and reforms, including efforts to ensure a healthier longer work life, and that Baby Boomer retirement needs to be 'managed' at an institutional level.
Population Association of New Zealand, 2019
An online New Zealand Atlas of Population Change (NZAPC) has been developed (see (http://socialat... more An online New Zealand Atlas of Population Change (NZAPC) has been developed (see (http://socialatlas.waikato.ac.nz/) to communicate the interaction and associated diversity resulting from three important components of population change-migration, natural change (births minus deaths), and population ageing. A comparative evaluation is made between five prominent international population web maps that utilise automated map server technology and the NZAPC which uses static maps designed collaboratively by a demographer and a cartographer. This evaluation combined the needs of demography, cartographic communication, and human-computer interaction, as well as consideration of software. Interactive online maps and graphics are a powerful medium for communicating population distribution and associated diversity, but care needs to be taken in the choice of data and their interpretation. The NZAPC differs from the other web map sites evaluated in that it is accompanied by supporting research and narrative. The design of the NZAPC has had extensive demographic and cartographic input so that users are provided with relevant and easy to understand maps and graphs. This is a different approach to mainstream population web mapping sites that provide access to large datasets and allow the user to dynamically construct their own maps. We argue that the provision of research-supported maps and graphs by experienced researchers have a rising place in online mapping. We provide examples from the Atlas, with a focus on assisting New Zealand to better understand population change and thus prepare for, respond to, and celebrate, its increasingly diverse population.
It is generally well accepted amongst the demographic community that policy does not have to be e... more It is generally well accepted amongst the demographic community that policy does not have to be even remotely concerned with population for it to have important demographic outcomes. This paper argues that the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS), which has potentially strong anti-natal elements, may be one such policy. Because of a lack of data, the purpose of the paper is to establish the hypothesis, rather than to test it. As Australia greets the Millennium, debate about whether or not to have a population policy continues as it has for most of the country's European history (Cocks 1996). Regrettably, there is less debate about what actually constitutes such a policy. One thing is certain. Little, if any, understanding exists amongst the policy-making community that a policy does not have to be even remotely concerned with population for it to have demographic outcomes. This paper argues that the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) introduced by the Federal Go...
This Report provides a demographic overview of 100 occupations for the period 1996-2013. It inclu... more This Report provides a demographic overview of 100 occupations for the period 1996-2013. It includes the majority of occupations listed in the Long-Term Skills Shortage List (LTSSL, effective since February 2018) and Immediate Skill Shortage List (ISSL, effective since June 2018). Additionally, the largest nine occupations which are not included on either the LTSSL or ISSL are featured towards the end of the Report, followed by ten chosen at the author's discretion, based on their current relevance by apparent demand. Each occupation on the list of contents is annotated with whether it is listed on the LTSSL or ISSL, or both, and is hyper-linked to the relevant page. On each page, additional breakdown of related codes drawn from the LTSSL or ISSL is given. A separate Appendix, also hyper-linked, contains the data for each occupation in more detail.
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Papers by Natalie Jackson