The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) is pleased to announce the 14th Path to Full Employment and 19th National Unemployment Conference. This years’ conference will now be held at the University of Newcastle, NSW from the 4th - 5th December. Please note that the conference that was originally advertised for July in Darwin is no longer taking place.

The theme of the 2013 conference will be “Reconstructing a Full Employment Narrative”. The global economy is still stuck in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis in 80 years and the legacy has been tens of millions remain unemployed, a large proportion of productive capacity is lying idle, and vast quantities of output and income foregone and lost forever. The downturn is now into its fifth year and large economies such as the Eurozone and Britain are back in recession as fiscal austerity undermines their nascent recoveries.

The political landscape seems divorced from the reality that on-going recession is extremely costly and prolonged unemployment, especially high youth joblessness, has inter-generational effects. Instead of creating jobs, governments are seeking ways to impose undermine the labour markets by imposing fiscal austerity at a time when private spending is still mostly weak.

The Conference will seek to explore the apparent contradictions of the policy stances that are now entrenched and causing the prolonged global unemployment crisis.


TOPICS
Papers in any area of labour market analysis will be of interest, particularly in the following research and policy areas:

• Reflection on the global financial crisis, Reform agendas etc…

• Any research on unemployment—its’ dimensions, causes, cures.

• The labour market and the inter-generational debate.

• The policy challenge of emerging skill shortages and underutilisation—how do we design solutions to both?

• The increasing problem of underemployment and marginal workers.

• Why has work become more precarious? Is it a problem?
What are the solutions?

• What is full employment? How is it defined and measured? How close are we to achieving full employment?
What are the challenges that remain?

• Employment guarantees versus income guarantees—pros and cons?

• Why do disparities in regional labour markets persist? What is the extent of the problem and its solutions?
Analysing patterns of work and housing.

• Long term, youth, disabled and indigenous unemployment.

Submissions can be made to both the Refereed (peer reviewed) or Non-Refereed streams. Refereed papers will be included in a volume of conference proceedings (which will constitute a refereed conference paper under Australian government rules).

THE DEADLINE FOR ALL ABSTRACTS IS: Friday 26th July 2013.


GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
Abstracts should be a maximum of 150 words.

Refereed papers should be 6000 words in length including references. Font should be Times New Roman 12 point and single spaced. Please use Harvard style referencing.

Non refereed papers have no formatting or word length.

All abstracts and papers should be submitted in MS Word version 2003 or 2007. Those interested in submitting abstracts and papers are asked to visit our website: http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2013/Guidelines.cfm for more formatting requirements needed for the submission of papers as well as paper deadlines.


REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Get in early and secure you early bird discount rate which expires on 31st October 2013.

Early Bird Rate: $340 (save $50 on standard registration rate which applies after 31st October 2013)
Concession: $260 (this applies to full time students, the unemployed or government pensioners only)
1 Day Rate: $250
1 Day Concession: $200

Please note that the Early Bird, Standard and Full Concession rates include the conference dinner.

Register online at: http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/events/registration.cfm.


For all Conference Correspondence please use the University of Newcastle contact details. Please submit papers and abstracts to:
Melinda Hannan, Administrative Officer: coffee@newcastle.edu.au.