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The outsourcing of domestic work contributes to the race, class and gender stereotypes of domestic work. It has neither elevated the status nor improved the working conditions of domestic workers.
Increased capital investment and productivity need not result in job losses. Government can use industrial policy to link investment incentives to job preservation and even job creation.
A new airport, aerotropolis and development of two of the ‘three cities’ in the metropolitan strategy all aim to create jobs in Western Sydney. But right now the only certainty is a huge jobs deficit.
A law to fast-track development consents is being fast-tracked itself. Before it’s too late, politicians should insist on greater protection against long-term environmental damage.
Education fuelled extraordinary growth in Western Sydney’s professional services workforce, but their jobs aren’t local. More than 300,000 commute to work outside the region.
Renewable energy projects are often in direct competition with fossil fuels for the hearts and minds of communities. There’s a way to win people over though, with ongoing local employment.
In a national survey, transgender individuals had worse employment outcomes, lower incomes and higher rates of poverty than cisgender people.
The best case scenario sees a short-term recovery to the depths of the 1980s and 1990s recessions.
Many key workers are among the UK’s lowest paid.
After the pandemic is over, grocery workers and nurses will still be essential. But will they be paid any better?
If fewer students from other countries enroll in US colleges and universities this fall due to COVID-19, the effects would be felt well beyond the campus, an expert warns.
Younger, unmarried or less educated workers are feeling the brunt of the economic effects of COVID-19. The fallout may deepen already existing inequalities.
COVID-19 has hit college and universities particularly hard, but do ‘nonessential’ employees have to suffer?
The global financial crisis taught us recoveries needn’t be V-shaped.
Trying to land your dream job during the COVID-19 pandemic may be a daunting challenge. Two university-based job coaches offer insights on how to think more long-term.
Black Americans were left especially vulnerable to the economic impact of COVID-19 and history shows it will take them longer to rebound.
With vast swaths of society forced to work from home, people with disabilities can overcome many of the challenges they face in a normal office environment.
Conducting interviews over Zoom from your own home can add extra anxiety to an already-stressful act.
Significant numbers of key workers barely make the minimum wage.
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, University of Oregon
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Professor of Employment Relations & HR Management, University of Birmingham
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Work and Employment, University of Southampton
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Director of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Professor of Work and Employment, King's College London
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University