Politicians should take into account the psychological impact of being jobless.
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Three pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs expire on Labor Day, putting millions of mostly low-income families in financial jeopardy.
The unemployment decline isn’t as impressive as it first appears, and wages growth remains sluggish.
The last time Australia’s unemployment rate was below 5% was June 2011.
Inflation, interest rates and booming mining royalties give the Morrison government scope to ignore the deficit daleks.
With the end of JobKeeper come changes that will force more people to search for work.
The recession was pinked-tinged, but so has been the recovery.
The widely reported unemployment rate – currently 6.3% – doesn’t fully reflect the reality of joblessness in the US economy.
Governor Lowe believes the unemployment rate will need to fall well below 5% before inflation climbs to the point where he needs to jack up rates.
The Reserve Bank should stick to its guns. Australia’s economy still needs all the support it can get.
Governments use a variety of labor market policies to support workers who lose their jobs – each with a different impact on a country’s well-being.
A high unemployment rate isn’t just bad for individuals without a job, and the costs aren’t just financial.
With 70 percent of its people under 30 years, Nigeria needs to harness the strength in its youthful population.
The economic status of Black Americans hasn’t changed since the Fed was handed its mandate in 1977. Could targeting Black unemployment, encouraging credit and reporting discrepancies narrow the gap?
The $600 federal jobless benefit may be generous, but that doesn’t mean is isn’t what workers and the US economy need.
More than eight out of 10 self-employed Australians have taken a significant financial hit from COVID-19, new ANUpoll data shows.
Several economists predict joblessness will eventually surpass the 25% rate experienced in 1933.
The difficulty governments have had in meeting the needs of Canadian workers impacted by the coronavirus crisis has exposed holes in our social safety net and the inadequacy of existing labour laws.
Some economists are predicting joblessness to surpass the record level experienced at the height of the Great Depression as 22 million people file for unemployment benefits.
Being out of work is hard: here’s how psychology is helping to make the process of finding a job a little easier.
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National 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 Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow (Macroeconomics), Melbourne Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor of Economics, Pace University
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ARC Future Fellow, School of PEMS, UNSW
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Professor / Director of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) programs, ECU School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College