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By Kim on August 19, 2010
If anyone wants to employ “one economist possum, slightly used, occasionally abused, good with numbers and other stuff. Intermittently snarky but always well humoured”, please see Possum’s post at Pollytics. I’d be very sad to see Possum become a less [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Economics, Life | Tagged analysis, Blogging, blogosphere, business model, Crikey, economist, employment, freelance writing, pollytics, possum, psephology, social media |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2009
In the wake of his avowal of climate change denialism on Four Corners, Nick Minchin has spent the second last week of the Parliamentary year stoking the fires of Coalition opposition to the CPRS. Tony Abbott, previously a ‘skeptic’ who [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Howardia, Immigration, Politics | Tagged asylum seekers, Barnaby Joyce, boat people, brown jobs, climate change policy, Coal industry, Copenhagen, cprs, denialism, emissions trading legislation, employment, green jobs, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Nick Minchin, Penny Wong, polling, refugees, Rudd government, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 14, 2009
My post last week on the decision to decrease the real wages of those reliant on awards for their pay by the so-called Fair Pay Commission sparked a somewhat heated thread, largely around the contention by some commenters that it [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics, Sociology | Tagged award rates, awards, Ben Eltham, Economics, employment, Fair Pay Commission, Ian Harper, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, labour economics, minimum wage, neo-liberalism, New Matilda, social inequality, social policy, steve dowrick, unemployment, wages policy |
By Kim on February 13, 2009
There’s surprisingly good news on the employment front for January, with unemployment only increasing by .3%, full time employment holding steady and female full time employment rising substantially: ANZ economist Katie Dean said the stimulus package had worked to retain [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged economic policy, employment, female employment, figures, fiscal stimulus, January, Julie Bishop, Liberal Party, shadow treasurer, statistics, stimulus package, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
Following on from one of the conclusions that can be drawn from the thread on Bernard Keane’s critique of the Rudd government’s involvement with bankers – that there’s a growing perception that the long term implications of “emergency” economic decisions [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Industrial Relations, Markets, Politics, Poverty | Tagged ALP, AMWU, car manufacturing, employment, free markets, industry assistance, industry policy, Labor, labour market, labour market programs, neoliberalism, Rudd government, skills, Tenneco, unemployment, unions, vehicle parts |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
The economic news of the day was a fall in the number of jobs advertised – as measured by ANZ – to “recession levels” – the eighth successive monthly drop. A number of economists extrapolated this to an unemployment rate [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, International, Poverty, Sociology | Tagged ANZ, employment, Fair Pay Commission, global financial crisis, Ian Harper, jobs data, Julie Bishop, Keynes, Liberal Party, Mike Steketee, neoliberalism, social inequality, unemployment |
By Guest Poster on December 3, 2008
Cross-posted at Event Mechanics. Ross Gittins has an article in the SMH on the relative wealth of university students. It is interesting reading. I was helped out by my folks for the final year and a half of my PhD [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Poverty, Sociology | Tagged affective labour, casual employment, employment, labour market, Ross Gittins, service industries, student incomes, student poverty, unemployment, university |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 17, 2008
Andrew Norton has posted on some interesting findings from Roy Morgan’s employment perceptions survey. Basically, there’s something of a disjunction – with 70% of respondents believing unemployment will rise over the next year (the highest since the last recession, and [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Polls, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Norton, economic policy, employment, expectations survey, global financial crisis, insecure work, labour market, polling, qualitative research, recession, Sociology, sociology of work, unemployment |
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