摘要：Abstract Analysed in this paper are the factors contributing to the growth in the level of youth employment rates in the late 1960s and the 1970s in Australia. In addition to variables representing seasonal, structural and cyclical causes of unemployment the empirical model focuses on the institutional causes of unemployment, namely the level of unemployment benefit payments and the conditions imposed on income earned by unemployment benefit recipients. The results of the analysis indicate a strong influence on unemployment rates by structural change factors, changes in the growth of {GNP} and conditions imposed on income earned by unemployment benefit recipients. Changes in the level of unemployment benefits appear to influence more the male youth unemployment rates than female or overall youth unemployment rates.
