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.
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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 involve 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.
White men have historically and disproportionately held official, managerial and professional occupations. But women and people of color are slowly gaining.
Two management experts devised a new way to predict whether your job is likely to get stolen by a robot – and what you can do about it.
There is little evidence of any strategic planning by Australia's federal and state governments to deal with social dislocation caused by AI-driven automation.
Little is known about how many people transition between the informal and formal sectors, a phenomenon called "churning".
A forum of Australian tech companies this week was told the government's encryption laws could see Australian jobs moved overseas. Labor's promised to "fix" the laws, but that could be too late.
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.
When a degree is not enough, how can students make themselves more employable?
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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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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Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & SocioTechnical Studies, Griffith University
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Reader, Australian Catholic University
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies & Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
