Now that we are recovering from recession, there’s no telling how low we could push the unemployment rate. One estimate is 3.5%.
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Any permanent increase is welcome, but there’s a long way to go.
It enjoys huge network effects that lock users in. Google does not.
Paying out 70% of salary for six months would line us up with much of the rest of the developed world.
The key is ‘capability’, and the tips come from New Zealand.
They’re hogging 84 megahertz of spectrum they don’t need.
A major new report from the Productivity Commission calls for an overhaul of Australia’s 17-year-old policy on water.
The increase will come at the expense of wages, and in the view of two inquiries - a decade apart - is something we don’t need.
Governor Lowe believes the unemployment rate will need to fall well below 5% before inflation climbs to the point where he needs to jack up rates.
The Conversation’s panel expects a rate hike by the end of 2022.
We have seen a significant drop in standards at the highest levels of government, creating a perception that things that are fast and loose.
Wetlands bear the brunt of much storm damage to the coast. But over the past 300 years, 85% of the world’s wetland area has been destroyed.
The end of coal-fired generation in Australia is inevitable. But the federal government can do more to ensure an orderly transition to renewables – avoiding price spikes and supporting workers.
From money creation to COVID to uncertainty to the end of rapid economic growth, Peter Martin’s summer reading list is unsettling and uplifting.
All sorts of transactions are “two-way value exchanges” in which it isn’t clear in which direction the money should flow. The proposed media bargaining code is one of them.
The good projects have already been identified and interest rates are low. We could speed up the electricity transition by decades.
The economic recovery is looking more and more V-shaped, the budget recovery will be much slower.
A new study highlights significant misunderstandings about the scale and scope of Australians who receive unemployment payments.
Workers could take a 10% pay cut on the condition it’ll be paid back when conditions improve.
Our economy remains far weaker than it was a year ago and far weaker than it would have been had spending not collapsed.
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Visiting Fellow and Director – Micro heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Performance program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Economist, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Australian Laureate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor in the practice of public policy and antitrust, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
