Urban growth has had much less impact on commuting distances and times than media reports would suggest. The explanations include jobs being widely dispersed and residents’ adaptable decision-making.
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With the unemployment rate at about the lowest level in almost 50 years, how much lower could it go? An economist explains.
Tech companies that have been wary to hire anyone over 30 are missing out on skilled workers.
Today, 8 out of every 10 Americans live in a city or suburb.
The Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy Plan would help the declining coal industry, but a study shows many coal workers could transition to a new industry – solar – and earn more money.
Most Australian workers are fairly relaxed about their own job security, but they do worry about the risks of poor management and outsourcing to cheaper labour.
The number of young people who work traditional summer jobs has declined significantly in recent decades. A scholar who focuses on generational differences in the workforce explains why.
There seems to be very limited high-level discourse about how South Africa plans to navigate this wave of technological advancement.
And it doesn’t involve immigrant bashing. Quite the opposite.
Entrepreneurs must grapple with uncertainty and work the longest hours. Yet they are happier and often healthier than people in other jobs.
Australian law firms are beginning to demand that law schools teach students new skills for the new AI economy, but legal education is failing to keep up.
Poverty rates across the suburban landscape have increased by 50 percent since 1990. This suburbanization of poverty is one of the most important demographic trends of the last 50 years.
South Africa needs to review its four years decision to exclusively deliver housing through megaprojects.
Even if policies could be found to bind new immigrants to regional areas, workers’ movements would continue to weaken the long-run impact on regional populations and economies.
A few years ago, a folklorist started gathering data on the creative ways graduates were embellishing their caps. From student debt to immigration, some themes quickly emerged.
The unemployment rate is now at its lowest level in 17 years and is very close to a 50-year low. Does that mean we’re at full employment?
The Australian Hotels Association of South Australia claims poker machine reforms proposed by Nick Xenophon’s SA Best party would wipe out ‘many of the 26,000’ jobs in the hotel industry. Is that right?
A new study reveals the challenges faced by people living with disabilities who want to open their own businesses.
Tax policy favours machines over workers. Here’s how to change it.
Turbulent times or business as usual? What the latest jobs figures do and don’t tell us about the British economy as Brexit looms.
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Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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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 Economics, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia University
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Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor of Organizational Studies, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
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Reader, Australian Catholic University
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