Centre for Future Work
The Centre for Future Work is an initiative of the Australia Institute, to conduct and publish progressive economic research on work, employment, and labour markets.
It serves as a unique centre of excellence on the economic issues facing working people: including the future of jobs, wages and income distribution, skills and training, sector and industry policies, globalisation, the role of government, public services, and more.
The Centre will also develop timely and practical policy proposals to help make the world of work better for working people and their families.
Research Topics
- Banking & Finance
- Climate Change
- COVID-19
- Digital Technology & the Internet
- Education & Training
- Elections, Politics & Parties
- Electricity Markets & the Grid
- Employment & Unemployment
- Energy from Fossil Fuels
- Environment & Jobs
- Fossil Fuel Mining
- Future of Work
- Gender at Work
- Gig Economy
- Governance & Government Agencies
- Health
- Housing
- Industry & Sector Policies
- Inequality
- Infrastructure & Construction
- Insecure & Precarious Work
- International Relations
- Labour Standards & Workers' Rights
- Macroeconomics
- Media
- Nuclear
- Population & Migration
- Public Sector, Procurement & Privatisation
- Renewable Energy
- Retirement
- Science & Technology
- Social Security & Welfare
- Tax, Spending & the Budget
- Trade & Foreign Aid
- Transport
- Unions & Collective Bargaining
- Wages & Entitlements
- Young Workers
Latest Research
The curious incident of low wages growth
Wages and Policy in the 21st Century Report No. 1
Gender at Work, Industry & Sector Policies, Labour Standards & Workers' Rights, Public Sector, Procurement & Privatisation
Working from Home, Not a Problem
The Continuing Irrelevance of Minimum Wages to Future Inflation
Minimum and award wages should grow by 5 to 9 per cent this year
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