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The annual symposium brought the world’s central bankers together in Wyoming.
While the gig economy offers flexibility and opportunities, it also presents significant challenges that need to be addressed to ensure the well-being of platform workers.
Simple changes to Australia’s skilled migration points test could boost visa-holders’ earnings, government budgets and Australia’s productivity.
Power outages in South Africa pose a threat to employment.
The gender wage and employment gaps are narrowing, and working from home is helping drive the change.
With dads being the primary earners in many heterosexual households, it was often the mother who gave up work to manage extra work at home during the pandemic. But what about heterosexual households where the mother was the primary earner?
Last year, the workplace cop fined employers just $4 million for underpaying workers. The Tax Office collected $3 billion in penalties from people who didn’t pay their tax.
After Brexit, the UK has had fewer migrants from the EU, but they have been far outstripped by people coming from elsewhere.
Migrants in Australia less than five years are twice as likely to be underpaid as other employees.
People who are out of work for reasons such as long-term ill-health are often not well served by national employment support.
To encourage the ‘economically inactive’ back to work, the government is changing pensions, childcare funding and creating more support for people with long-term illnesses.
A combination of a decline in workers under 35 and an ageing workforce is leading to labour shortages in many regions.
Forcing universities to only serve the needs of the labour market undermines their abilities to educate students and conduct research.
Volunteering can help people gain soft skills, improving their labour market prospects.
The silver lining to recent tech giant job cuts could be more skilled labour for Irish tech and better options for women and older workers.
Contrary to anti-work narratives in the news media, a survey of employees in the United States and Canada has found that most employees like their bosses.
Skills training in Zimbabwe excludes students from poor backgrounds. The informal sector should be used as a training ground for them.
One crucial element of the regional jobs discussion is the need for a redefinition of ‘work’, to include community responsibilities, care and caring for land and Country.
Young workers are particularly vulnerable in the workplace because they tend to do short-term work, often lack training and safety education, and may see injury as just “part of the job.”
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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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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Deputy Program Director, Migration and Labour Markets, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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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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Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, and Bankwest Research Chair in Economic Policy, Curtin University
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
