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More funding is needed to help those furthest from work.
Collaboration is better than competition when it comes to making markets do what we want in an economic crisis.
The police killing of George Floyd galvanized populations already frustrated by the effects of COVID-19 to take to the streets.
COVID-19 will worsen the labour market for Indonesia’s young graduates in three ways: higher barriers of entry into the job market, long lasting lower income levels, and worsening labour conditions.
Marches, demonstrations, civic unrest, attacks by law enforcement and the military on protesting civilians: The parallels between the summer of 1932 and what is happening currently are striking.
Western Sydney’s growth-driven boom had ended before COVID-19 hit. Some neighbourhood unemployment rates were 2-3 times the metropolitan average, with female workforce participation as low as 43%.
Without spending the money Australia will have a much higher rate of unemployment than it needs for a very long time, new Grattan Institute calculations find.
Similarities between the 1930s and today are hard to ignore, but Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal teaches us that several developments have to coincide to generate a lasting social safety net.
Resilience, humour, hardship and tragedy – a unique survey reveals how ordinary New Zealanders coped during one of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns.
It will take a long time for the full economic impact of COVID-19 to be known, but a careful scrutiny of labour market outcomes over the next couple of months will shed some light.
The mental health of young women is far more sensitive to unemployment than the mental health of young men.
Bankruptcy is meant to offer breathing space to struggling companies, but it may not be enough given the unpredictable nature of the pandemic.
Even in places that are now COVID-free spending remains subdued, and different.
PODCAST: The third part of a series from The Anthill Podcast on how the world recovered from major crises throughout history focuses on the recovery after 1918.
Employment programmes cannot replace economic growth in improving youth employability, but they play a crucial role in helping them find work.
“Helping Kiwis live better every day” is the Warehouse motto. Now it’s laying off staff and closing stores.
When South Africa eventually emerges from the fog of the COVID-19 crisis, structural reform, including land reform, will be high on the political agenda as never before.
Four researchers studied California’s shelter-in-place orders to figure out how many lives were saved by its early enactment. Here’s what they found.
With unemployment soaring due to COVID-19, why is Jacinda Ardern’s centre-left government significantly less generous towards beneficiaries than Scott Morrison’s centre-right government in Australia?
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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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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Senior Lecturer, Research School of Economics, and Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
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Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
