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Students who complete internships at university are better at managing their careers and are satisifed with their career choices, research shows.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said that Australia spends more at a Commonwealth level on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than it does on child care or higher education. Is he right?
The economic reasoning is the same behind Labor and the Coalition’s job plans for young people.
Incoming Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe will face the challenges of rapid credit and asset prices growth.
Internships can have direct and indirect costs that may exclude some who can’t afford them.
The US has held off on raising rates, as the world waits to see which way the Brexit vote will go.
Why is it that we want strong democracies for ourselves, but “economic czars” for others?
The Property Council of Australia, a lobby group representing the biggest real estate developers, has shaped election debate about negative gearing and some taxes.
There isn’t a lot of research on whether an internship will secure you a job.
A Productivity Commission report on digital disruption argues that government’s should stop creating barriers to innovation but it fails to provide solutions on privacy and ownership of data.
Employers run the risk of breaking the law if they are getting interns to do work that otherwise would be done by paid employees.
The majority of bankruptcies occur due to unemployment and excessive credit, rather than business failure.
Business Briefing: what breeds terrorism?
The breeding ground for terrorism isn't necessarily poverty - it's the middle class.
Microsoft’s strategy for LinkedIn is likely to follow the path of Yammer.
Was Opposition Leader Bill Shorten right about full time job losses and underemployment under the Coalition government?
Supermarkets are finally catching on to the fact that consumers have disliked the proliferation of private labels.
We’re just at the beginning of working out the tasks machines will make us better at.
It doesn’t matter how much Oliver Curtis and John Hartman stood to gain from insider trading, what matters is what we all lose from market tampering.
Labor’s proposed reform of family benefits will impact on higher income families.
A case involving the suppression of academic research into racism - by a university - raises troubling questions.
Small businesses are important employers. But the problem in the company tax debate is that they haven’t created many jobs. Unlike big business.
The Business Council of Australia speaks for the big end of town - but does it still have the ear of government?
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the…
The current campaign against proposed changes to superannuation has little basis in reality.