Rising employment is more than keeping up with New Zealand's growing population, while unemployment has fallen to 5.4 percent, according to this report. Key facts In the September 2014 quarter compared with the June 2014 quarter: The number of filled jobs rose 1.0 percent. Unadjusted, average ordinary-time hourly earnings rose 1.4 percent. Average ordinary-time weekly...

The sharing economy allows people to share property, resources, time and skills across online platforms. This can unlock previously unused, or under-used assets – helping people make money from their empty spare room and the tools in their sheds they use once a year. It allows people to go from owning expensive assets, such as...

Technological, economic and demographic changes have contributed to what we now accept as a 24/7 economy and the ‘standard model’ of working nine to five Monday to Friday, is generally no longer considered standard (Presser, 2003). For example, a shift from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy has resulted in changes in the way...

Often enough you mostly hear stories about mining, fly-in and fly-out workers or severe weather events from Western Australia. But there is more. At a 720 ABC Perth forum, a panel of TEDx Perth speakers discusses the future of Western Australia: initiatives the state is driving in recycling, sustainability, disabled care, environment and innovation.

The norms of men as breadwinners and women as carers face a different reality, with large and ongoing consequences for employment arrangements, family formation and the raising of children. Abstract Traditional gender roles are being disturbed by the increasing earnings of women relative to men. We document the rise in female breadwinning over the last...