2.7 million jobs are at risk, 1.4 million of them immediately.
- Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
Automation does threaten jobs, but the most widely cited study exaggerates the effect and pointed to job losses in places where they didn’t happen.
We’ve 41,000 more long-term unemployed than would be expected given the unemployment rate. Something has changed.
An economic evaluation of a program of interventions for Australia’s most vulnerable children has produced startling results.
As political and legal fights over casual work crank up, it’s worth busting some myths, such as the idea that it is becoming more common.
Unemployment rates have risen in Australia while falling in the US. But Australia has experienced a much smaller decline in the proportion of its population who are in work.
Research shows that a few AFL teams have had much more success at drafting players than others. Richmond’s recent premiership was in part build on good draft choices.
Despite evidence to the contrary, we still view technological change today as being more rapid and dramatic in its consequences than ever before.
Data show that people don’t feel more insecure in their jobs now. In fact, that feeling is decreasing.
Even though the shift towards part-time employment has actually been happening for many years, it now appears to be slowing.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said Australian wages growth is at record lows. Is that true?
Research shows that low-skilled workers are losing jobs and wages in developed countries because of trade, but the evidence still isn’t there as to who are the winners.
Medal counts for individual countries from the Sydney 2000 to London 2012 Olympics have been predicted relatively accurately, using just a small number of demographic and economic characteristics.
What’s in store for key policy areas, from health to education to infrastructure to asylum seekers, under a returned Coalition government?
The success of the government’s new youth employment plan will depend on how its used by services, employers and young people alike.
Australia’s wage growth has been sluggish, but the reasons are more complex than they seem.
The uniquely Australian literary voice is worth protecting, but parallel importation restrictions are not the way to do it. Rather, we should lift those restrictions – and subsidise Australian booksellers directly.
What are the key challenges for ministers entering new portfolios in Malcolm Turnbull’s first cabinet? The Conversation asked experts in key policy areas to respond.
(COMMENTS UPDATED) In the lead up to last year’s federal election, the government promised two million new jobs within 10 years. Its focus was on the “five pillar economy” of manufacturing, agriculture…
It’s unlikely “The Political Sayings of Malcolm Fraser” is a well-thumbed volume in Tony Abbott’s library. Yet this week, in the wake of the Senate throwing his government’s budget plans into disarray…
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens has ticked off on a major item on the “to do” list for Australian policy-makers: raise the rate of growth in labour productivity. In his keynote speech…
Australia came out of the global financial crisis better than most industrialised countries, but did not escape altogether. With a weaker economy, the unemployment rate rose from about 4% to 6% between…
The Work for the Dole program could again become a core element of welfare policy for the unemployed in Australia, but there is a considerable body of evidence which shows it is unlikely to help people…
“Australia has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the developed world.” - Finance minister Penny Wong, The Drum opinion article, 14 January. Several ministers, including finance minister Penny Wong…
Melbourne University has become the first Australian university to join the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider Coursera. Coursera offers free study subjects to anyone with internet access, with…
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