Care workers need career progression too.
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Working in a care home should come with better career prospects.
A lot of people in Indonesia juggle precarious jobs in the informal sector. They work without employment contracts and can lose their jobs without warning.
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Indonesia has a large young workforce. But this can be a problem if they can’t find jobs.
Present but unproductive.
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We’re increasingly afraid of missing work – even when sick. New research reveals why.
Migrants warm up by a fire as they wait to cross into Croatia, October 19 2015.
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In the 1920s, refugees were allowed unrestricted passage to countries that needed workers. There’s a lesson here.
University isn’t the best option for everyone.
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Less than half of young people in Australia go to university, so why do we make this the gold standard that all should strive for?
Mind the gap.
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Some data shows the gap in employment rates between disabled and non-disabled working-age people has gone down. But other data says the opposite. Here’s why.
It’s not the quantity but quality of jobs on offer to young people that deserves further attention.
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The current discussion about youth unemployment overlooks some nuances of the data that should be helping shape policy.
Using your degree.
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Graduates aren’t all working in coffee shops – they have fuelled growth in top jobs.
Is this the future of labor?
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The most radical reinvention of work since the rise of industrialization is upon us, as more of us drift toward app-enabled self-employment.
The African continent is embracing technology in varying degrees. Swimmers use a selfie stick to take a picture of themselves in shallow waters of the River Nile outside Khartoum, Sudan.
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Science and technology is seen as a key driver of a nation’s economic fortunes. How is the African continent faring a decade after the first major global survey on countries’ performance?
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Why three-day weekends are not only feasible but the basis of a better standard of life.
Employment growth does not equal ‘jobs creation’.
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Politicians all too often use monthly jobs numbers to infer that the other mob is doing a bad job or that they are doing a great job at managing the economy. But that’s a flawed use of the data.
Is this what I studied neuroscience for?
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As debates rage on whether graduates are ‘over-educated’, researchers have looked at what’s actually happening to their jobs.
Many young workers exhaust themselves doing on-demand jobs for very little money.
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Digital technology makes it easy for people to join the so-called “gig” economy and compete for work. But what employment rights does this online workforce really have, if any?
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The sharing economy has not, so far, changed the structure of employment and it would require a sudden and unprecedented shift which reversed very recent trends for it to do so.
Workers are still feeling a little pinched.
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The July employment report suggests the recent trend of lackluster gains in jobs and wages is continuing, and a rate hike should therefore be off the table for the time being.
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A dedicated group of forward-looking experts have crunched the numbers on human progress. There’s good news, and there’s bad news.
Obama is the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque.
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It’s time to end discrimination in employment by getting rid of the box that asks applications to disclose convictions or arrests.
Obama swears to help struggling African entrepreneurs.
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Those looking to start a business in Africa face enormous obstacles, even with the backing of foreign investors.
The US minimum wage is currently US$7.25 an hour, but workers are fighting for it to be US$15.
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Australia doesn’t have many of the employment problems still troubling OECD countries, but structural unemployment is one.