Mark Fabian, Australian National University and Robert Breunig, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
We've tested the claim that overworkers have no choice, and found it wanting.
Explicitly teaching graduate students project management - a skill set they typically learn through trial and error - could mean better research and employability.
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Graduate students have much to offer the non-academic workforce based on critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Universities need to help them articulate these skills for employers.
Uber has sparked protests around the world. It is seen as exploiting its own drivers and harming those employed in regulated taxi industries.
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India’s youths, an eighth of the world’s population, are facing a growing unemployment crisis. Australia must engage with this global demographic, for our own benefit and theirs.
Underemployment and stagnant wages may be strong signs of worker insecurity in the face of relentless cost-cutting.
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Most workers are still employees, not casuals or gig workers. So what has changed to increase the insecurity of workers?
The problem doesn’t appear to be with the relevance of qualifications and skillsets to employment, but rather with the scarcity of employment.
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The government claims university degrees are failing businesses, but analysis of the latest graduate outcome and employer satisfaction surveys tells us the problem is with underemployment.
Big Issue sellers get social contact and dignity out of their work, but it's not a secure pathway out of poverty and homelessness. Social enterprises enable small steps; governments can do much more.
Beyond the gender wage gap there is a problem of persistent underemployment.
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Focusing on the gender wage gap means we don't address increasing insecure work. Women face both higher unemployment and underemployment rates than men.
Paraguayan farmers are demanding agrarian reforms that would restore lost jobs to the countryside.
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Underemployment among young people is now at its highest in the 40 years since it has been officially counted, according to a report from the Brotherhood of St Laurence released on Monday.
Despite the prominence given to underemployment, ‘overemployment’ is more pervasive in Australia.
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Australia's labour market does a relatively good job of accommodating the preferences of the majority of workers. But that's not to say there's no-one who wouldn't prefer to work more – or less.
Professor, Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies in the Faculty of Education. Latest books with Rosalyn Black include "Imagining Youth Futures: University Students in Post-Truth Times" and "Rethinking Youth Citizenship after the Age of Entitlement", Monash University