May 17, 2022

Working With COVID: Insecure Jobs, Sick Pay, and Public Health Almost one in five Australians (and a higher proportion of young workers) acknowledge working with potential COVID symptoms over the course of the pandemic, according to new...

by Dan Nahum and Jim Stanford

April 14, 2022

Youth unemployment and the pandemic Young Australians have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Young people make up just 14% of the workforce but bore 55% of the job losses during the...

by Eliza Littleton and Rod Campbell

April 14, 2022

Bearing the Brunt Youth employment and the pandemic in New South Wales

by Eliza Littleton and Rod Campbell

November 19, 2021

International COVID-19 Income Supports: An Update The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted global labour markets, and exposed long-standing gaps in social protection systems. Governments around the industrialised world...

by Alison Pennington and Jim Stanford

October 4, 2021

Shock Troops of the Pandemic Casual and Insecure Work in COVID and Beyond

by Jim Stanford

September 22, 2021

Post-COVID-19 policy responses to climate change: beyond capitalism? A sustainable social, political and environmental response to the "twin crises" of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change will require policymaking beyond capitalism. Only...

by Mark Dean and Al Rainnie

September 13, 2021

An Avoidable Catastrophe Pandemic Job Losses in Higher Education and Their Consequences

by Eliza Littleton and Jim Stanford

July 26, 2021

Creativity in Crisis: Rebooting Australia’s Arts and Entertainment Sector After COVID Culture is an inescapable part of what it means to be human. We can no more imagine a life without the arts than we can imagine a life without language, custom, or ritual....

by Alison Pennington and Ben Eltham

June 7, 2021

Attitudes towards mandatory COVID-19 vaccination Key Findings: More than three-quarters of Australians (77%) agree with making the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for workers in contact with vulnerable demographics, such...

The Australia Institute

June 2, 2021

Industrial Policy-Making After COVID-19: Manufacturing, Innovation and Sustainability As Treasurer during the 1980s, Paul Keating lamented that Australian governments had for decades been allowing the country's sophisticated industrial base to fall apart as...

by Mark Dean, Al Rainnie, Jim Stanford and Dan Nahum

December 30, 2020

2020 Year-End Labour Market Review: Insecure Work and the Covid-19 Pandemic Australia’s labour market experienced unprecedented volatility during 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting recession. In the first part of the year, employment...

by Dan Nahum and Jim Stanford

November 18, 2020

Work and Life in a Pandemic An Update on Hours of Work and Unpaid Overtime Under COVID-19

by Dan Nahum

November 9, 2020

The Choices We Make The Economic Future of Tasmania

by Dan Nahum

July 28, 2020

A Fair Share for Australian Manufacturing Manufacturing Renewal for the Post-COVID Economy

by Jim Stanford

July 23, 2020

JobKeeper: Eligible vs ineligible workers

by David Richardson

April 28, 2020

Log of Extraordinary IR Measures During COVID-19 Shutdowns COVID-19 containment measures have suspended large sections of the economy. Governments have committed over $220 billion in income supports to workers and firms. The $130...

by Alison Pennington

April 13, 2020

Working From Home: Opportunities and Risks With many regular workplaces shut down to 'flatten the curve' of COVID-19, millions of Australians are now shifting their work to home. Home work has great potential to...

by Alison Pennington and Jim Stanford

March 27, 2020

The Same Mistake Twice The Self-Defeating Consequences of Public Sector Pay Freezes

by Troy Henderson and Jim Stanford

March 22, 2020

Overwhelming Majority Support Government Paid Leave for COVID-19 Self-Isolation

The Australia Institute

March 19, 2020

Catalogue of International Initiatives to Support Workers through COVID-19 The Australian government has pushed back against introducing needed measures to support workers in casual, self-employed, or gig positions during the unprecedented labour...

The Australia Institute

The Australia Institute

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Working With COVID: Insecure Jobs, Sick Pay, and Public Health Almost one in five Australians (and a higher proportion of young workers) acknowledge working with potential COVID symptoms over the course of the pandemic, according to new...

Youth unemployment and the pandemic Young Australians have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Young people make up just 14% of the workforce but bore 55% of the job losses during the...

Bearing the Brunt Youth employment and the pandemic in New South Wales

International COVID-19 Income Supports: An Update The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted global labour markets, and exposed long-standing gaps in social protection systems. Governments around the industrialised world...

Shock Troops of the Pandemic Casual and Insecure Work in COVID and Beyond

Post-COVID-19 policy responses to climate change: beyond capitalism? A sustainable social, political and environmental response to the "twin crises" of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change will require policymaking beyond capitalism. Only...

An Avoidable Catastrophe Pandemic Job Losses in Higher Education and Their Consequences

Creativity in Crisis: Rebooting Australia’s Arts and Entertainment Sector After COVID Culture is an inescapable part of what it means to be human. We can no more imagine a life without the arts than we can imagine a life without language, custom, or ritual....

Attitudes towards mandatory COVID-19 vaccination Key Findings: More than three-quarters of Australians (77%) agree with making the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for workers in contact with vulnerable demographics, such...

Industrial Policy-Making After COVID-19: Manufacturing, Innovation and Sustainability As Treasurer during the 1980s, Paul Keating lamented that Australian governments had for decades been allowing the country's sophisticated industrial base to fall apart as...

2020 Year-End Labour Market Review: Insecure Work and the Covid-19 Pandemic Australia’s labour market experienced unprecedented volatility during 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting recession. In the first part of the year, employment...

Work and Life in a Pandemic An Update on Hours of Work and Unpaid Overtime Under COVID-19

The Choices We Make The Economic Future of Tasmania

A Fair Share for Australian Manufacturing Manufacturing Renewal for the Post-COVID Economy

JobKeeper: Eligible vs ineligible workers

Log of Extraordinary IR Measures During COVID-19 Shutdowns COVID-19 containment measures have suspended large sections of the economy. Governments have committed over $220 billion in income supports to workers and firms. The $130...

Working From Home: Opportunities and Risks With many regular workplaces shut down to 'flatten the curve' of COVID-19, millions of Australians are now shifting their work to home. Home work has great potential to...

The Same Mistake Twice The Self-Defeating Consequences of Public Sector Pay Freezes

Overwhelming Majority Support Government Paid Leave for COVID-19 Self-Isolation

Catalogue of International Initiatives to Support Workers through COVID-19 The Australian government has pushed back against introducing needed measures to support workers in casual, self-employed, or gig positions during the unprecedented labour...

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