A worker cut fabric panels from a material stack at a textile factory in Cape Town. Young South Africans aren’t being given the skills they need.
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The Nigerian government must design more interventions to improve education, employment opportunities and the economy in order to control the country’s population growth.
In Morocco, most women’s lives, choices and mobility are controlled by men.
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Louise Humpage, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Life on social welfare can feel ‘soul destroying’. The May 20 Budget could start to fix that — but an unemployment insurance scheme isn’t the right solution.
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The budget is Australia’s State of the Union. It’s the only night of the year the government sets out a program against which it can be held accountable.
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
47 of the 60 leading economists surveyed by the Economic Society and The Conversation back the Treasurer’s decision to aim for an unemployment rate of less than 5%.
Some workers prefer a hybrid approach, whereby they can alternate between working at home and in the office.
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If the best people management practices of the formal economy were to be deployed in the informal economy, new avenues of stimulating economic and life empowerment may be opened.
A teeming number of Nigerians of working age are unemployed.
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The government will aim at driving unemployment below pre-pandemic levels and avoid any sharp pivot towards “austerity” in its May 11 budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will say on Thursday.
People visit fruit section of a grocery store on Guadeloupe, an island group in the southern Caribbean Sea.
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Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The recession was pinked-tinged, but so has been the recovery.
Most U.S. pandemic policies are not helping those most vulnerable to dying from both COVID-19 and pandemic-driven unemployment, including Blacks, the less educated and the poor.
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Most pandemic policies have benefited those already best off in US society and ignored people for whom neither mass shutdowns nor reopening offer relief.
Very few job applications get a positive response.
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Despite bleak employment outlooks, college graduates can take some simple steps to boost their chances of finding a job, a veteran career services counselor says.
Graduates in the science, engineering and technology fields enjoy an advantage in the labour market.
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Renee McKibbin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Peter M. Downes, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and Warwick J. McKibbin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Done right, JobMaker can support 100,000 jobs, but it’ll have to happen soon.
Hilton Metrotown hotel employees hold signs and posters during a news conference outside the hotel in Burnaby, B.C., in February 2021. The employees’ union urged prospective guests not to stay at the hotel as a job action after dozens of workers were laid off.
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