Our inability to foresee the jobs of the future should be tempered by the realization that that jobs have always appeared in the past, regardless of technological advances.
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Students picking their subjects for Years 11 and 12 need to understand that science can be useful in a wide range of future jobs.
Jordan has a huge number of Syrian refugees and since 2016 it has let them legally enter the workforce.
Migrants who’ve settled in regional Australia find jobs, get on with the locals and feel safe. So the government wants to know how to encourage more migrants to move there.
The US-China trade war shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what readers need to know.
State governments are leading the charge against opioid makers over their role in the epidemic. A team of researchers at Penn State examined just how much the crisis has cost them.
Amazon’s plan to invest $700 million retraining its workforce signals very soon all jobs will be STEM jobs – and higher education needs to play a bigger role.
A growing number of jobs are becoming less stable, with fewer benefits and stagnating wages. This is taking a significant toll on the psychological health of workers.
As the US prepares to replace NAFTA, a labor scholar who was critical of Perot but shared concerns about the deal revisits the claim that helped him become the most successful third-party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt.
A number of banks are doomed to fail if they don’t adapt to the new realities of the finance industry.
Recent scandals involving economic development programs in New Jersey and Maryland highlight their many flaws, including a lack of oversight and their ineffectiveness.
Zero-hours contracts exploit workers and need to be banned.
Training providers and employers aren’t adapting fast enough to meet the skill needs thrown up by the fourth industrial revolution.
A project to protect producers from food fraud by verifying and promoting the provenance of the region’s beef exports to China turned out to be a source of creative work in the region as well.
Trump may find it harder to maintain support for his escalating tariffs on China if the US economy shows further signs of weakness.
The Fed said it’s ready to act to ‘sustain the expansion.’ The latest jobs report suggests it may have to act soon.
An economist explains why the long-term drop in the participate rate is an even bigger problem for the US economy than the May slowdown in jobs growth.
Bias, stereotypes and other rules of thumb influence how people think about you – even based on your name.
Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people.
Just as America’s highways, sewage systems and water pipes need fixing, so does the growing gap between rich and poor. Trump and the Democrats could use that money to address both.
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Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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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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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia University
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Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor of Organizational Studies, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
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Reader, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
