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Labour markets tend to be among the most regulated markets in the economy. While these regulations were meant to protect workers, they are often counterproductive by putting obstacles in the way to job creation. Finding the right balance between these two goals remains a difficult task.

Unions vs Representation
September 30, 2011

Growing up in New Zealand, where the labour market was deregulated (in 1991) when I...

Sighs of relief heard from the bankers’ bunkers
September 16, 2011The Age

BANKS might have feared big changes after the global financial crisis. Millions around the world...

Wet ink on a euro death notice
Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 13, 2011Business Spectator

After two years of ineffective crisis management, the euro is terminally damaged. Europe’s common currency...

Time to revisit RBA board
Stephen KirchnerSeptember 7, 2011The Australian Financial Review

If some members of the trade union movement are to be believed, the Reserve Bank...

Same cracks, just a new coat of paint
September 7, 2011The Australian Financial Review

Forget the ‘Wranslide’ of 1978. Barry O’Farrell’s government holds a bigger chunk of the Legislative...

NSW budget: time to cut and shed Mick Dundee image
September 6, 2011Crikey

New South Wales is the Mick Dundee of Australian employers. That’s not a payroll, this...

The Case for a New Australian Settlement: Ruminations of an Inveterate Economist
Wolfgang KasperJune 26, 2015OP141

Australia needs a cultural counter-revolution that appeals to the traditional Australian spirit of self-reliance and...

Fairer Paid Parental Leave
Matthew TaylorJuly 7, 2014T30.11

Australia spends just under $1.4 billion (2012–13) on statutory Paid Parental Leave (PPL) to provide...

Not Looking for Work: The Rise of Non-Jobseekers on Unemployment Benefits
Andrew BakerJuly 31, 2013PM136

Following the global financial crisis, the incumbent Labor government introduced policies that reduced the job...

TARGET30: Reducing the burden for future generations
David Murray AO, Maurice Newman, Simon CowanJuly 1, 2013PF25

TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government and cutting government spending to less than 30%...

Relics of a Byzantine IR System: Why Awards Should Be Abolished
Alexander PhilipatosMay 23, 2013IA140

Howard’s Work Choices reforms were seen by many as the enemy of the Aussie ‘fair...

Australia and the Asian Ascendancy: Why Upskilling is Not Necessary to Reap the Rewards
Benjamin HerscovitchFebruary 19, 2013IA137

Australia’s Asian embrace: Australia’s exports to Asia are almost triple its exports to the rest...

IR’s Kodak moment
John SlaterJuly 14, 2017Ideas@TheCentre

The rise of automation will see a sizeable chunk of today’s workforce replaced by robots,...

Fair Work Commission awards won’t save hospitality and retail from Kodak moment
John SlaterJuly 10, 2017AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

  The rise of automation will see a sizeable chunk of today’s workforce replaced by...

Neither Protectionism nor Unionism will hit stagnant wages for six
Simon CowanJuly 8, 2017CANBERRA TIMES

The cricketers united can never be defeated (the Champions Trophy notwithstanding). Perhaps the most interesting...

Timely reminder about IR and productivity
Jeremy SammutJune 2, 2017Ideas@TheCentre

The former Executive Director of the HR Nicholls Society, John Slater, delivered the second Helen...

Penalty rates a challenge for business
Simon CowanMarch 10, 2017Ideas@TheCentre

The government’s response to the Fair Work Commission’s decision on penalty rates has been weak....

Youth employment: The good, the bad and the ugly
Patrick CarvalhoMay 6, 2016Ideas@TheCentre

The Budget measures aiming at solving youth unemployment are an improvement on previous programmes, but...

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Submission to the Independent Review of the Australian Public Service
Simon Cowan, Eugenie JosephAugust 1, 2018
Productivity Commission Inquiry Into Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services: Submission in response to issues paper
Trisha JhaJuly 1, 2016CIS Submission

The Human Services Inquiry is ‘examining policy options in the human services sector that incorporate...

Submission to the National Commission of Audit
Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan, Stephen Kirchner, Trisha JhaApril 1, 2014T30.08

The federal government’s Commission of Audit (CoA) was established in 2013 to review the performance...

Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee
Andrew BakerSeptember 10, 2012

Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee

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Submission to Remote Participation and Employment Servicing Arrangements
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonOctober 11, 2011

The Discussion Paper’s focus on participation and employment in remote Indigenous communities is welcome because...

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