title: Aboriginal migration and labour market programs.
abstract: "Despite the potential for government employment policies both to encourage and preclude migration among the Aboriginal workforce, little is known about the impacts of such policies.  This paper seeks to construct a base line for identifying these impacts by establishing the spatial structure of labour migration among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.  It makes use of 1986 Census data to describe the volume and pattern of net and gross flows of working-age Aborigines and Islanders through the national settlement system, distinguishing between movements in remote and closely settled parts of the country.  Full determination of the links between policy and migration flows awaits comparison with 1991 Census results."
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005006:Ethnicity; D005193:Family Planning Services; D006285:Health Planning; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011155:Population Control; D011157:Population Dynamics; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011640:Public Policy; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
keywords: Australia; Demographic Effectiveness; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Employment; Family Planning; Family Planning Program Evaluation; Family Planning Programs; Indigenous Population; Labor Migration; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Migration Policy; Migration, Internal; Oceania; Policy; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Settlement And Resettlement; Social Policy