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The number of jobs might be going up but the real test will be whether wages rise too.
There are more robots than ever in the operating room – but that’s led to fewer opportunities for surgical trainees. Now, some new doctors are teaching themselves in secret.
Unlike the days of old, career and technical education in today’s high schools doesn’t really prepare students for work. Researchers at Georgetown University explain why CTE must be revamped.
Cabinet papers released today by the National Archives show Working Nation began as a rational exercise but was soon overtaken by a desire to make the policy everything to everyone.
Brexit, bots and jobs and bitcoin are set to dominate economics news in 2018.
Unlike other age groups, 16- to 24-year-olds haven’t recovered the job losses they suffered during the Great Recession. Spurring investment and growth are key to getting them back to work.
Here in the business and economy team at The Conversation, we love charts. This year we’ve made plenty of good ones with academics.
The extent to which mobile phones can support and sustain real improvement in young lives is depressingly finite unless significant interventions occur.
Growth in high-skilled jobs is highest in Australian cities and for the country its low-skilled jobs.
There has been a substantial improvement compared to 15 years ago, when the incidence of poverty among the elderly was 32.4%.
Use our calculator to work out whether you’re an “average” Australian where you live.
Thousands of American women moved west to take advantage of wartime employment opportunities during WWII. For some, this version of the California dream was temporary; for others, it lasted a lifetime.
Despite evidence to the contrary, we still view technological change today as being more rapid and dramatic in its consequences than ever before.
New South African research supports evidence that urbanisation has a positive impact on people’s lives and must be managed appropriately for development.
Unemployment levels are low, but many people are being pushed into inadequately paid jobs by a punitive benefit system and lack of choice.
Queensland Labor claimed it has ‘created 122,500 jobs – more than four times the number of jobs created under the Newman-Nicholls government’. Is that right? We asked the experts.
Welcome to your future.
Should we care about the loss of an industry that normally lives in the shadows?
We can expect to see a rise in part-time employed people using second jobs as a solution to insufficient hours in their main job.
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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