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.
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When a degree is not enough, how can students make themselves more employable?
President Trump says that the white working class is being pushed out of the job market. But that doesn't seem to be true for the best-paying blue-collar jobs.
Economic research suggests tax incentives and other corporate subsidies don't have the positive impact they're supposed to.
Amazon nixed plans to build a headquarters in Long Island City after some New Yorkers questioned the wisdom of offering billions in tax breaks in exchange for job promises. A Texas study suggests they had reason to worry.
The high costs of finding work make it difficult for young South Africans to get jobs.
An obsession with GDP growth fails to account for some of society's most pressing problems.
Before deciding what to study at which university, high school graduates should consider the drop-out rates, early-career employment prospects and lifetime earnings their program is likely to yield.
Multiple studies have found the overall impact on labor markets to be minor, even if some workers will need new career paths.
How an increased use of technology could widen the gender pay gap in higher education.
South Africa's job summit ignored the great chasms that exist on how to create jobs.
First-generation college students earn substantially less than their peers whose parents went to college, new research shows.
The best way to help young people into work is to listen to their aspirations, and cater to their needs.
Undergraduate statistics degrees have tripled in the past decade. Is 'statistician' really the sexy new job?
Urban growth has had much less impact on commuting distances and times than media reports would suggest. The explanations include jobs being widely dispersed and residents' adaptable decision-making.
Tech companies that have been wary to hire anyone over 30 are missing out on skilled workers.
Today, 8 out of every 10 Americans live in a city or suburb.
The Trump administration's Affordable Clean Energy Plan would help the declining coal industry, but a study shows many coal workers could transition to a new industry – solar – and earn more money.
Most Australian workers are fairly relaxed about their own job security, but they do worry about the risks of poor management and outsourcing to cheaper labour.
The number of young people who work traditional summer jobs has declined significantly in recent decades. A scholar who focuses on generational differences in the workforce explains why.
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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
