Rejecting precarious work signals dissatisfaction with a labour market where wage employment rarely offers security or social mobility.
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Interest rates are due to drop again, and the government is talking up recovery. But unemployment data suggest deeper problems in the nature and quality of the job market.
Blaming newcomers — particularly international students and their spouses — for job shortages overlooks deeper structural issues in the labour market.
Wealthier South Africans, particularly those in urban areas, are more optimistic about emerging technologies than those in low-income and rural areas.
Zimbabwe’s graduates feel let down because the modernist promises of education have failed them.
South Africa’s social relief grant has enabled recipients to search for work or start small businesses.
Labour has vowed to end divisive discourse demonising out-of-work people as ‘scroungers’ - but how does this fit with its tough warnings about people who don’t ‘engage’?
An alternative would be to invest directly in job creation.
The government’s planned reforms contain some good ideas – but the challenges are huge.
The narrative of criminality is dangerous. It dehumanises destitute people, who are forced into informal mining to escape poverty.
Botswana, a diamond-rich country of 2.5 million people, has high levels of poverty and unemployment.
The US added just 12,000 jobs in October 2024.
An entrepreneurship course in Nigerian universities initially sparked students’ interest, but its impact has faded.
Increasing grant payments to extremely poor South Africans would alleviate poverty and help economic growth, a modelling exercise shows.
There is no doubt the Victorian economy has been slowing. But there is little evidence to show it is following the disastrous path of the early 1990s.
41% of Australians on Jobseeker are failing to collect the number of “points” needed to stay on benefits, suggesting there is as much wrong with the system as the people on it.
The future of Mozambique rests on the ability of the new president.
Until now, Australia has been more successful than the US, UK and Canada in managing inflation and unemployment, but underlying weakness in the labour market are putting that success at risk.
Austerity means choosing not to invest in citizens, contrary to the mandate of South Africa’s constitution.
Slowing climate change means cutting fossil fuel use. Many oil- and gas-producing communities aren’t prepared for that future, as a former White House economic and climate adviser explains.
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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DSTI/NRF Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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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, University of Nebraska Omaha