What are the policy implications for reducing unemployment?
Other complementary sources of data exist such as the Survey of Working Arrangements conducted in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2003. This survey provides a range of useful data relating to changes in working patterns including an estimate of the number of workers undertaking unpaid work. Another source of data which exist is the Working Hours of Wage and Salary Earners, Queensland conducted in 1999. This survey is based on the current cycle of the 2006 Overemployed Workers in Queensland. Also, recent research by Buchanan and Bearfield (1997), Reforming Working Time, Alternatives to Unemployment, Casualisation and Excessive Hours, suggests that as many as 19.3% of workers regularly undertake unpaid work. While these data highlight the significance of over-employment as an issue for all labour market analysts, there is little information available at the State level in terms of unpaid hours, the characteristics of workers preferring to reduce their hours and the extent to which over-employment i
