Research Topic: Employment & Unemployment

Research Papers from the Centre for Future Work.

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Inclusive and Sustainable Employment for Jobseekers Experiencing Disadvantage

This report provides an overview of workplace and job-related factors found to act as barriers to sustainable and inclusive employment

No Blood – No Job

Organisations in Australia are using blood analysis as a means of screening future employees for ‘health risks’ that they allege

Productivity in the Real World

Australia does not have a “productivity crisis” – new research Claims that Australia faces a productivity crisis are overblown. Weak

Taking up the Right to Disconnect? Unsatisfactory Working Hours and Unpaid Overtime

This year marks the sixteenth annual Go Home on Time Day (GHOTD), an initiative of the Centre for Future Work

The Economic Importance of Public Services in Regional Communities in NSW

Public sector austerity has become a “policy fad” in Australia, at all levels of government. Its hallmarks are unnecessary public

Tolerate Unemployment, but Blame the Unemployed

Chronic Unemployment a Consequence of Deliberate Economic Policies For the last generation macroeconomic policy in Australia has been based on

Unemployment and the Newstart Allowance

Australia’s Newstart benefit hasn’t been increased in real terms in a generation, and pressure is growing on the Commonwealth government

What’s a Million, Anyway?

Million jobs not what it used to be: new report In the lead-up to the 2013 federal election, then-Opposition Leader