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The article offers the author's insights on a study regarding the unemployment rate of youth in Australia. Topics discussed include the unemployment of youth is claimed to be associated to the high immigration intake, the state of youth labour market, and the relationship between unemployment and economic development.

Explains the effects of minimum wage on employment in Australia. Role of minimum wage in pricing relatively unskilled workers out of the labor market; Unemployment and underemployment rate; Distribution of workers by wage in a free market; Percentage of long-term unemployed by highest level of educational attainment; Characteristics of unemployed; Effects of minimum wage changes on labor demand.

Focuses on job creation and job destruction in Australia. Model of the labor market; Strategies in eliminating unemployment; Chart showing aggregate production function; Productivity growth and high employment; Grounds for full labor market deregulation; Claim that private enterprise creates jobs and the government eliminates jobs.