Six charts explain the Australian economy. Three of the most disturbing show living standards going backwards, productivity collapsing and household saving falling to a 15-year low.
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An uncritical obsession with productivity threatens to distract us from the deeper problems Australia must face and fix.
The skills children learn at school have dramatic implications for their own future and the nation’s productivity, living standards and income inequality.
Labor productivity doesn’t matter as much as emissions productivity. Workers aren’t a particularly finite resource.
Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
Health investments raise worker productivity, but firms may not observe changes in worker effort. Technology that measures physical activity demonstrates these potential gains.
Since the 1990s productivity has been slowing in Australia and elsewhere. We aren’t really sure why this is, but here are a couple of theories that could explain it.
In the 1950s, Ghana was twice as rich as South Korea. It has since fallen a long way behind.
Here’s what really needs to happen to make work healthier.
Heat cost Australia nearly A$7 billion in 2014, which is bad news given climate forecasts of hotter and more frequent heatwaves.
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens has ticked off on a major item on the “to do” list for Australian policy-makers: raise the rate of growth in labour productivity. In his keynote speech…
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Professor, Strategy, Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Post-doctoral researcher, the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Environmental Economics, Charles Darwin University
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Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia
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Research Associate, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
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Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Johannesburg
