The government wants to see more older workers in the workforce, but first we need to overcome the ageist attitudes held my many employers.
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Sovereign Wealth Funds have about $7 trillion to invest in the companies we work for – and new research shows that the biggest of them brings some extra benefits.
The more we automate jobs, the more we need to find new jobs for people, especially if the government wants us to stay in the workforce longer. That’s going to take some clever thinking.
School enrolment rates in sub-Saharan Africa have increased markedly in recent years, but it is failing its newly educated young by not creating jobs commensurate with their education.
More STEM education isn’t a bad thing, but if we want to safeguard our jobs from being taken by machines, we need more emphasis on the humanities.
Our immigration expert evaluates the manifestos of 16 political parties, to see how their policies on immigration stack up.
Microsoft has joined those firms making efforts to hire autistic people – hardly surprising, with the benefits that could bring.
Measures to co-locate employment support for mental health service users in Jobcentres may be less valuable than placing them elsewhere.
We asked two academics to check the prime minister’s figures on job creation.
Labour’s Chuka Umunna said Britain is lagging behind in terms of productivity. We got two academics to look at the facts.
Conservative and Labour proposals for young jobseekers have different rhetoric, but both miss the point.
We know they are there, beyond our borders. The huddled masses; the wretched of the earth; the refugees. We would just prefer not to see them. And when events force us to look – when ghost ships float…
Queensland unemployment recently plummeted – or did it? Whether you’re a Queenslander getting ready to vote in the January 31 state election, or simply someone interested in employment trends in Australia…
David Cameron has announced his aspiration for the UK to become a nation of “full employment”, promising that Britain will have the highest employment rate of any major world economy. This is not the first…
Judging from the first week of campaigning, the 2015 Queensland election is going to be very much about economics – and jobs in particular. On the one hand, Premier Campbell Newman and his Liberal National…
In Australia, there are reports that up to half a million of existing jobs could be taken over by robotics or machines run by artificial intelligence. So with smarter computers taking on more of the work…
On Friday we witnessed images reminiscent of the London Riots from a few years ago. People with a crazed look in their eyes descended on shopping malls to plunder their contents. They fought with others…
There is an ongoing and very heated debate between the unconditional supporters of private equity and their opponents. It’s not hard to see why. On the surface, these investors can often buy fragile companies…
Victorians will soon go to the polls to decide who will be responsible for the management of the state for the next four years. Voters are confronted with many issues on which they must pass judgement…
No company wants to be singled out for having “Victorian” work practices, as Sports Direct has been. Despite the poisonous reputation of zero hours contracts, employers continue to argue they need them…
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Oregon
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Employment Relations & HR Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
