A high unemployment rate isn’t just bad for individuals without a job, and the costs aren’t just financial.
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The realities of the job market mean most PhD students no longer work alongside people whose professional paths they will follow. Universities must do more to support non-academic mentorships.
It isn’t only because they are in worse jobs. it’s also because they are earning less from businesses.
Previous recessions have mainly hit men. The jobs figures suggest we should treat this one differently.
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.
Being flexible about both location and the nature of employment will help youth make the most of the current challenging labour market situation due to COVID-19.
Young Australians, particularly young unskilled Australians, will scared by what’s about to happen for a decade or more.
Job ads are 12% lower than expected this year.
There are a few things South Africa needs to do to close the gap between what the education system produces and what the job market needs.
In a world of people striving for more public professional recognition, interpreters try to remain invisible.
For families, the HILDA report has little good news – childcare costs, poverty and anxiety are rising, all while women are more involved in the labour market. But there is some reason to hope.
A fast growing economy that creates jobs will not automatically reduce youth unemployment due to systemic barriers faced by young people, including skills shortages and malfunctioning labour markets.
Businesses and workers are at the mercy of mega-corporations.
For women with a bachelor of arts degree, teaching is one of the highest paying jobs. The opposite is true for men.
While government payments and programs go some way to reducing inequality, the transformation of the labour market and its institutions has cut workers’ share of the pie to historic lows.
A new report by the Migration Advisory Committee on the impact of EU migration on the UK has highlighted the reliance of farms on migrant labour.
Labour’s immigration plans are progressive, but could still get bogged down in red tape.
As Australia started to professionalise the change was led by industries dominated by women.
With most new jobs going to women, their workforce participation rate is growing at nine times the rate for men. But, while participation is on track for parity in a decade, pay is another matter.
A big increase in employment but the unemployment is flat. Addressing this will be a challenge as all our options have downsides.
Top contributors
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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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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Deputy Program Director, Migration and Labour Markets, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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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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Research associate, Grattan Institute
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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, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) and John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin Business School, Curtin University