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Jobs are scarcer and times are hard during a pandemic – so why are job-seekers still left feeling they were the ones who weren’t good enough?
Governments use a variety of labor market policies to support workers who lose their jobs – each with a different impact on a country’s well-being.
Concerns about having enough to eat are worsening among college students during the pandemic. This could ultimately affect how many finish school, two scholars argue.
Automation in South Africa’s auto industry may have made car manufacturing easier, faster, and more productive but it comes with social and employment costs.
Underlying the design and implementation of these schemes is perhaps a perception that women’s employment is an optional extra. This could not be more mistaken.
Demobilisation of millions after an abrupt end to war led to a political crisis 75 years ago.
Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
Tipped workers have been struggling since before COVID-19, and the pandemic isn’t making it better.
Why everyone working less could help alleviate the COVID-19 economic crisis.
COVID-19 has accelerated the decline in local and national journalism. Is it time to find a new funding model, or for the government to intervene?
Ethical hiring practices should include a full disclosure by the company of any social media searches in advance of hiring a job candidate.
After trying to remove street vendors from its cities for years, China is supporting them to help jump-start its economy. An urban scholar explains why other cities should do the same.
Collaboration is better than competition when it comes to making markets do what we want in an economic crisis.
COVID-19 will worsen the labour market for Indonesia’s young graduates in three ways: higher barriers of entry into the job market, long lasting lower income levels, and worsening labour conditions.
Some coal workers have the right skills and work in the right location to get a job in renewables. But many, such as semi-skilled machine operators, cannot.
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.
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.
Research shows predictions for the jobs of the future are unreliable, and the government’s funding changes don’t match what their own data shows about future earnings.
It will take a long time for the full economic impact of COVID-19 to be known, but a careful scrutiny of labour market outcomes over the next couple of months will shed some light.
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Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
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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, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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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 of Business, Boston University
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RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia University
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Strategy and Organizational Theory, Mount Royal University
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor of Organizational Studies, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Human Resources and Management, McMaster University
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Cadre en exercice, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University