Tomorrow’s good jobs will require digital skills like programming.
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What’s more, higher education holds the key to ensuring humans are equipped with the necessary skills to work alongside AI.
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More of us are in work than ever before, but we are more cautious than before, less likely to ask for more pay or change jobs.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his state of the nation address.
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President Ramaphosa’s state of the nation speech showed his preference for less contentious matters that attract praise, rather than catalytic decisions.
The pain of being out of work is hard to bear for many South Africans.
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Unemployed people in South Africa suffer acute distress and more needs to be done to give them social support.
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The Conversation’s 2020 economic survey points to a dismal year, with no progress on many of the key measures that matter for Australians and an increase in the unemployment rate.
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Scores of jobs could be affected by the fourth industrial revolution – and not enough is being done to guard against this.
Men make more money in women-dominated fields, such as teaching.
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Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
A recent study conducted by Brookings Institute researchers found artificial intelligence could “affect work in virtually every occupational group”. However, it’s yet to be seen exactly how jobs will be impacted.
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As machine automation and artificial intelligence surge, there’s paranoia our jobs will be overrun by robots. But even if this happens, work won’t disappear, because humans need it.
As smartphone uptake and connectivity grows in Africa, so does the often unhealthy trend of young people betting on sports using their phones.
Supporting and empowering jobseekers has better results than the current “economic” approaches used by jobcentres up and down the country.
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Being out of work is hard: here’s how psychology is helping to make the process of finding a job a little easier.
Vanguard Laundry Services in Toowoomba, Queensland, has provided jobs to about 78 people with histories of mental illness and long-term unemployment.
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Mental illness makes it harder to get and to keep a job. We need more employers prepared to give people with mental health challenges a go.
Past experience doesn’t always count for asylum seekers when they apply for work in Australia.
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No matter how skilled or qualified they are, asylum seekerd say they’ve often forced to take whatever basic job they can just to survive.
Ricky, from Sorry We Missed You.
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Flexibility is just a euphemism for exploitation.
Intimate violence victims fare better with coordinated help.
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Women and children remain vulnerable to harm even after intimate violence has occurred. Coordinating a community’s response can help avoid educational, employment, social, housing and legal problems.
Most of the headlines derive from a single study. Over the past six years its predictions have been anything but accurate.
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Automation does threaten jobs, but the most widely cited study exaggerates the effect and pointed to job losses in places where they didn’t happen.
The relationship between income and health underlines the need for strong government policies to break the cycle.
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It’s evident from research that while health influences economic well-being, the inverse is also true, economic well-being influences health.
Former Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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Crony capitalism became firmly embedded under Ben Ali, benefiting his family and close friends.
Students in the electrical program at H.C. Wilcox Technical High School in Meriden, Connecticut practice their skills.
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Students who get admitted to Connecticut’s career and technical education high schools are more likely to graduate and earn significantly more than peers who barely missed the cut.
Even when sharing a house, the average cost of rent means very little is left over from the Newstart allowance for food and living costs.
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Once rent is paid, having to live on only $14 a day doesn’t cover the costs of job seeking. The evidence of the need to increase Newstart and Rent Allowance is overwhelming.
The Fed’s Jerome Powell keeps his cards close to his chest.
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The US economy may be in worse shape than it seems.