When the skills of new immigrants exceed the demands of their jobs, organizations may risk losing valued employees.
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This pilot has made it easier for employers to hire skilled refugees from overseas, delivering benefits for local communities. But it is due to end on June 30.
There is a range of important reasons why home ownership remains elusive for many Australians. But there are solutions.
Fixing productivity in home construction will require a coordinated approach between government, home-owners, construction companies and their employees.
Job listings now often demand that applicants have degrees and experiences that were previously unnecessary, with some job requirements even surpassing the qualifications of current employees.
Hosting migrants isn’t only motivated by humanitarian reasons. In Germany immigration provides solutions to demographic and economic problems.
Canada is facing a critical shortage of skilled tradespeople, only doomed to get worse with retirement rates. Our only hope is to attract more workers before it’s too late.
The British government’s immigration plans may be long-awaited, but they have not come at a good time.
Until you reach 25, employers can pay you less than your older colleagues.
If educated women are discriminated against in their home country, they will take their skills elsewhere.
Many US voters appear to believe that deporting illegal immigrants would boost job opportunities and wages for US workers. But economic modelling suggests different conclusions.
Economic models suggest that South Africa’s GDP would fall, inequality would deepen and unemployment would rise if university graduates don’t enter the labour market in 2017.
Over the next ten years, 40% of jobs are predicted to disappear. Universities will be essential to helping people reskill, upskill and reinvent their jobs.
An increasing number of high-skilled graduates, rather than technology, could be to blame for a decline in the UK’s mid-paying jobs.
There are very few jobs that are can’t be done in principle by robots and artificial intelligence. What will you do when a robot takes your job?
The United States has always been known as a nation of immigrants and a top destination for scientists and other highly skilled professionals. That ability to attract the world’s most educated and innovative…
The latest data from the ONS show that the UK’s productivity gap with other G7 nations is at its widest since 1992. This bad news comes against the backdrop of increased optimism as the economy seems finally…
Governments in most countries, including Australia, often feel the need to predict which skills will be in demand and match them with increased supply largely through education planning and migration…
“The previous government oversaw changes to apprenticeship policy and cuts in employer incentives that led to huge drops in the numbers of young people starting an apprenticeship.” - Australian Chamber…
According to analyst firm Gartner, Big Data is at the portion of the hype cycle called the “peak of inflated expectations”. The business world is awash with all sorts of claims about the magic of Big Data…
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Tutor, The University of Law
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Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Expert en migrations internationales, Université de Liège
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Research Assistant - Productivity and Innovation, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Professor in Working Life, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Vice-Chancellor, Western Sydney University
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Data scientist, Stanford University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Former Senior Lecturer/Program Director, masters program in human resources management, RMIT University
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Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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Associate Professor, University of Pretoria