Job and Skills Summit | Media Coverage

31 August 2022

The summit needs to get us switching jobs. It’d make most of us better off

Gianni La Cava, Dan Andrews and Adam Triggs talk to the The Conversation Media Group about why allocating our existing talent more efficiently should be on the agenda at the Job and Skills Summit.

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‘Creative destruction’: economists suggest alternate path to wage rise

e61 Productivity Program Director Dan Andrews talks to the The Australian Financial Review about the e61 paper “Better harnessing Australia’s talent: five facts for the Summit”.

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Do people change their earnings to avoid losing benefit payments? | Media coverage

18 May 2023

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Income Support Gaps: Does JobSeeker target those who need it? | Media coverage

15 May 2023

On Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Insiders, Shane Wright gave a great summary of recent e61 research on JobSeeker. This research (“Income Support Gaps: When JobSeekers don’t seek Jobs”) shows that most people

The case for boosting JobSeeker for all: younger people report greater financial hardship

8 May 2023

Gianni La Cava (e61 Research Director and Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University) and Peter Siminski (e61 Senior Academic Fellow and UTS Professor of Economics) discuss their research on the links