Job Markets

The Productivity Commission’s Climbing the Jobs Ladder Slower Report July 2020

The Productivity Commission’s recent report “Climbing the Jobs Ladder Slower: Young People in a Weak Market” looked at job and income outcomes for young workers between 2001 and 2018. The findings show that even before COVID, many young people found their position on the jobs ladder has been sliding ever lower since the GFC, regardless of their qualification levels. In doing so, it sheds light on the career challenges side hustlers can suffer in their day job if they didn’t prioritise conventional careers in their twenties and thirties.

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“Scott Morrison has declared the Coalition will not engage in “unfunded empathy” when it comes to raising the Newstart rate” and “the best form of welfare is a job” Katherine Murphy The Guardian 29.7.2019

Thinking about job markets is a key task in Career Counselling. This week I’ve been thinking about unemployed people already on Newstart for several months. How have they have processed the rapid change in government policy on “unfunded empathy” prompted by a covid outbreak? Given the very low levels of support for the unemployed to date, it seems very unlikely any of our future creatives and artists will look back on their job hunting days with anything but horror.

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