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By Mark Bahnisch on July 28, 2011
A report by the Brookings Institution has found that clean economy jobs pay low and semi-skilled workers in the US significantly better than the median. Similar research in Australia would be very valuable in informing the carbon price debate.
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Featured, Industrial Relations, USA | Tagged Brookings Institution, clean economy, Climate change, climate policy, Economics, emissions, green jobs, innovation, jobs, labour market, Paul Howes, polluting industries, research, Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment |
By Robert Merkel on June 10, 2011
It seems like the release of monthly employment data passed almost without comment yesterday. The lack of interest – if you’ll pardon the pun, it seemed the major focus of commentary was the data’s likely effect on the deliberations of [...]
Posted in Economics, Featured, Industrial Relations | Tagged labour force, labour market, labour underutilisation, underemployment, unemployment |
By Kim on January 6, 2011
As we all slouch back towards work in the new year, a hardy perennial has been dominating the business pages and the Bosses’ Bible, the Australian Financial Review. Spurred on, this time, by the release of 1980 Cabinet papers (resources [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged 1980 cabinet papers, Fair Work Australia, ideology, Industrial Relations, Labour, labour market, propaganda, resources boom, unions, wages breakout, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2010
Writing in Crikey the other day, Eloise Keating suggested that “if Abbott wants to woo women, he should start with wages”: Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Australian women earned just 82.5% of the average male rate [...]
Posted in Feminism, Industrial Relations, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged arbitration, asu, award system, awards, community sector, eloise keating, equal pay, equal pay alliance, Eric Abetz, Fair Work Australia, Feminism, gender equity, house of representatives committee on education and wor, Industrial Relations, Julia Gillard, labour market, making it fair, parental leave, pay equity, social inequality, social policy, statistics, test case, Tony Abbott, unions, Women, work, work value case |
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 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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 29, 2008
One of the longest bows I’ve seen drawn about the effects of the global financial crisis is this obituary (and not in elegiac style) for the 80s. And Gen X. Apparently because of Robert Zemeckis. And therefore Gordon Gekko. I [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, History, Markets, Music, Sociology, USA | Tagged 80s, 90s, cultural sociology, cultural studies, David Mekelburg, Demi Moore, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, global financial crisis, Gordon Gekko, Greed is Good, Jules, labour market, pop culture, Robert Zemeckis, Sociology, St Elmo's Fire |
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