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Workers have been quitting more than ever. But where are they going?
While the uptick in the unemployment rate in January may seem like bad news, the reason it rose actually shows the labor market returning to normal.
A record share of workers quit their jobs in September. A human resources scholar explains how this is a trend that predates the pandemic.
The Bank of England is weighing up the costs of a change.
Canadian economist David Card won the Nobel Prize in economics for demonstrating that large-scale immigration has no effect on the wages of native-born workers. In doing so, he’s challenged Economics 101.
Current wage rises will be short term, and expensive for consumers.
Informal employment is significant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plight of informal workers needs to be highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Can the structural barriers to low-skilled employment growth be overcome?
Recent developments in the organisation of production have led to the decline of wage employment across much of the world.
Most of the million gardners employed in South Africa earn less than the minimum wage.
Companies being required to go public with information about executive and workers pay packets is increasingly becoming the norm.
Racialized women immigrants still earn less than their peers on average even when well-qualified. It’s up to employers to remove employment barriers.
A law from 1969 is still having an impact on nursing pay in Denmark today.
With the COVID-19 pandemic making inequalities worse, has the time come to make sure all interns are paid?
COVID-19 is shedding light on the impact of poverty, inequality and unemployment. This includes hardships women face and the burden placed on them to manage responsibilities every day.
The outsourcing of domestic work contributes to the race, class and gender stereotypes of domestic work. It has neither elevated the status nor improved the working conditions of domestic workers.
Some companies are moving permanently to remote work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. But are they simply passing on costs to employees while invading their personal space?
Treasury’s inability to forecast wage growth suggests it doesn’t understand what cases it and why we need it.
They have every right to take their own lead on salary cuts during the pandemic.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, 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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Emeritus Professor of Economics (Griffith University) and Teaching Associate (University of Queensland), Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Economics, Queensland University of Technology
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Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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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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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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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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Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Work and Labour Market Policy, University of Sydney