Put to the test in the past two years, the idea of a “natural” rate of unemployment has failed. There’s no need to push unemployment up to any particular rate to bring down inflation.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Unemployment
Displaying 1 - 20 of 657 articles
Efforts have been made to change the patterns of inequality in South Africa. But not enough has been done. Race-based inequality is still a real problem.
Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.
Inner city occupations and shack settlements alike are the inevitable consequence of the fact that huge populations of people have to get by without a living wage.
Failed developmental promises, ever shifting domestic elite alliances and popular demand for better living conditions contributed to the military removal of Gabon’s Ali Bongo Ondimba.
COVID-19-related support only reduced the negative impact of the pandemic on financial capital, and not on the other forms of capital
The Treasury and RBA believe Australia’s sustainable rate of unemployment is above 4%, but Australia’s leading economists think 3.75% is possible long-term, and have ideas about how to achieve it.
Without governance reforms, Zimbabwe will continue to face an economic crisis.
The Bank of England has just raised rates for the 14th time in a row to 5.25%.
The JobSeeker payment is set to increase by an extra $40 a fortnight from September, but only if the budget measure gets through parliament.
Even a week ago we couldn’t have predicted this. But after good news from the US, our Reserve Bank now has a chance to cement low unemployment while controlling inflation – without more rate rises.
We estimate that unemployment and underemployment in the 13 years between 2004 and 2016 directly resulted in more than 3,000 Australian deaths by suicide.
Social enterprises need to be proactive in improving their internal processes and structures. They also need to share essential information.
In parts of Nigeria and Mozambique, the central governments and state institutions are either absent or unable to address the dire socio-economic conditions and related instability.
And men struggle more than women with female breadwinning arrangements.
Many countries in West Africa do not have up to date census surveys.
Nigeria’s debt profile is disturbing but shouldn’t hinder Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ability to tackle unemployment and poverty.
Studies from multiple countries have found that long COVID is linked to an increased likelihood of not working. Here’s what’s happened in the UK.
Workplace absences, along with sales lost due to the cessation of brick-and-mortar retail shopping, airline travel and public gatherings, contributed the most.
People who are out of work for reasons such as long-term ill-health are often not well served by national employment support.
Top contributors
-
Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
-
Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
-
Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
-
Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
-
Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
-
Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
-
Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
-
Senior Lecturer, Research School of Economics, and Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
-
Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
-
Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
-
Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
