Report
Precarity and job instability on the frontlines of NDIS support work
In this report, researchers document the experience of front-line disability service workers under the NDIS based on first-hand qualitative interviews.
Report
The relationship between superannuation contributions and wages in Australia
This research shows that scheduled increases in employers’ minimum statutory superannuation contributions would have no negative effects on future wage growth, and that Australia’s economy can afford both higher wages and higher employer contributions to superannuation.
Report
The future of work for Australian graduates
This report documents the new challenges faced by Australian university graduates in finding jobs that are stable, rewarding, and uitilise their newly-developed skills. The report was prepared in conjunction with Graduate Careers Australia.
Conference paper
The future of work: five contrarian insights
Centre for Future Work Director, Jim Stanford, challenges five stereotypical claims that are often advanced in debates over the future of work. This commentary was prepared for the My Labour, Our Future conference held in August in Montreal (Canada), to mark the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the International Labour Organization.
Briefing paper
Update on penalty rates and job-creation: two years later
This paper shows that employment growth in retail and hospitality has been far slower than in other parts of the economy (where penalty rates remained constant) and job-growth in the two sectors actually slowed by more than half after penalty rates began to fall.