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Far from finding an ‘ageing time bomb’, the report paints a picture of a society in which the ratio of working Australians to dependents is little changed, with climate change the only big concern.
Companies trialling four-day working weeks are considering making it permanent.
How do you measure the productivity of a hairdresser, or a teacher, or an aged care worker? It’s harder than you might think.
The best way to increase wages is to invest in education and skills.
We’ve researched co-operation at work for many years – and its much easier to talk about than to achieve, especially in a political system as adversarial as Australia’s.
Although the end of the pandemic may be in sight, the costs of working remotely are growing. It’s time companies had a plan – even if they aren’t returning to the office any time soon.
Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
In the midst of the information technology revolution, Australia’s productivity growth has been slowing. It ought to have been the other way around.
Italy has stagnated for more than two decades, yet its politicians seem hardly aware of the source of the problem, let alone how to fix it.
Australia is increasingly a services-led economy. The health sector is not only a big employer, but health care is an important factor in worker productivity.
Spurring productivity growth requires innovation. Not just in products, but in our business models and management practices.
What are the risks in the economic outlook for Australia? Typically, prognosticators take a scenario-based (aka “story-telling”) approach to answering this sort of question. And usually these scenarios…
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Visiting research fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Finance, Columbia University
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Affiliated Researcher, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University
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Professor of People, Organisation and Work, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Strategic Management, UMass Lowell
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Emeritus professor, University of Newcastle
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Distinguished Visiting Professor in Economics, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Visiting Fellow, College of Business & Economics, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Management, UMass Lowell
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Director, Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford
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Professor of Work and Regulation, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Innovation, University of Technology Sydney