Where you decide to live will impact your career.
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New research finds that people who live in areas with high unemployment in their youth are more likely to retire early.
Arthur Caldwell almost defeated Robert Menzies in the poll in 1961, and won the debate about policy.
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History suggests we can run sizable budget deficits while shrinking the budget debt burden. Mid last century our leaders weren’t afraid to say so.
Understanding how people move through job sectors is crucial.
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Little is known about how many people transition between the informal and formal sectors, a phenomenon called “churning”.
Victoria’s Hazelwood coal fired power station closed in 2017 after 52 years of operation.
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We have quantified the effects of twelve power station closures in five states. Local unemployment shoots up and comes down only slowly.
The unemployment rate is 4.9%, but the underemployment rate is 8.1%
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We’ve the lowest unemployment rate in eight years, but little to celebrate.
A man offers his services at a traffic intersection in Cape Town. Almost 55% of South African youth are unemployed.
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A national minimum wage could benefit young people who have jobs and stimulate those who have given up trying to find work. But those without work need additional help.
Students march through the University of NSW in Sydney calling on the university to divest from fossil fuels.
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There are more than 1.3 million young Australian voters in NSW, but they feel excluded from traditional politics. To win the youth vote, politicians must address the key issues that matter to them.
Over 90% of South Africa’s electricity comes from coal-fired power stations.
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South Africa needs to wean itself off coal in a way that protects jobs and the environment.
South Africa has one of the worst rates of youth unemployment in the world.
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Guaranteeing unemployed South Africans a job at the minimum wage would have a range of positive outcomes for the economy.
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The Finnish experiment will only fuel further debate on whether or not universal basic income is a good idea.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during his 2019 State of the Nation Address.
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Many of the crime prevention strategies South African President Cyril Ramaphosa proposed have been tried, with few positive results.
Soweto in South Africa. Apartheid’s spacial planning still affects people’s lives.
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The high costs of finding work make it difficult for young South Africans to get jobs.
Things will continue to look good enough for long enough to help the government fight the election. Beyond that, the Conversation Economic Panel is worried.
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The Conversation has assembled a forecasting team of 19 academic economists from 12 universities across six states. Together, they assign a 25% probability to a recession within two years.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni (centre) arrives to deliver the mid-term budget statement to Parliament.
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South Africa needs to urgently step up its efforts to drive economic growth by harnassing the power of the state, as well as the markets.
But that counts people working less than six hours a week on zero-hour contracts.
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The government insistence of an employment success story betrays the reality of austerity job cuts and pay squeezes for many
African National Congress supporters during the recent ANC Election manifesto launch in Durban.
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A great deal of analysis on South Africa and the ruling ANC seems to be based on wishful thinking, not concrete reality.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s party, the ANC, faces a tough set of elections in May.
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The African National Congress faces two big challenges: fewer South Africans trust it, while its electoral support has been waning.
Single parent and extended families are the dominant family forms in South Africa.
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More attention needs to be paid to aligning South Africa’s family policy with the realities of everyday life.
A large number of poor South Africans live in informal settlements.
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Initiatives to boost South Africa’s economy could reinforce structural weaknesses without addressing the high levels of inequality.
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Scotland tends to take a more progressive approach to inequality, but how is it actually faring compared to the rest of the UK?