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Featured image: Forty years of change in the jobs Kiwis do and the places they call home

Forty years of change in the jobs Kiwis do and the places they call home - FutureworkNZ

Guest Author • Oct 17, 2019 •

Judy Kavanagh Over the last 40 years, New Zealanders – and people in other countries – have experienced big changes in the jobs they do and where they live and work. These changes include: a decline in manufacturing jobs an increase in jobs in ‘information-intensive’ industries (which are better paid and require a tertiary qualification) increasing participation of women in … Read More

Featured image: What makes a job a good job?

What makes a job a good job? - FutureworkNZ

Guest Author • Jul 12, 2019 •

John MacCormick   There’s an old joke about an economist searching for her keys under a street lamp. She lost them somewhere up the street in the dark, but it’s easier to look where the light’s shining.1 John MacCormick If that still has any amusement value, it’s because there’s still some truth in it. When searching for the keys to … Read More

Featured image: There’s no place like home

There’s no place like home - FutureworkNZ

Guest Author • Jul 11, 2019 •

Tim Maddock    Why don’t people move as often as economists expect? Some regions in New Zealand have much higher rates of unemployment than others. These differences are persistent, with little change over the past thirty years. Why might this be? If workers seek higher pay (and unemployment is painful) then we would expect workers in struggling regions to … Read More

Featured image: The future of volunteer work

The future of volunteer work - FutureworkNZ

Dave Heatley • Jun 21, 2019 •

I only know one economist joke. A plane carrying economists plummets towards the ground after its engines fail. In a quiet cabin, an economist pipes up: “in my model the demand for parachutes just peaked, and the market will increase supply”. This caricature of economists — withdrawn, unemotional and overly trusting in simplistic models — has at least a grain … Read More

Featured image: Don’t believe the hype

Don’t believe the hype - FutureworkNZ

Guest Author • May 17, 2019 •

Predicting technology is the first step towards predicting the labour market impacts of technology. But history tells us that technology prediction is like a game of chance. Make enough predictions and you’re sure to get some right… and many wrong, sometimes spectacularly. The president of IBM, Thomas Watson, purportedly said in 1943 that “I think there is a world market … Read More

Featured image: Myths about psychosis affect employment

Myths about psychosis affect employment - News

Jean Balchin • Jul 10, 2017 •

The public’s preconceptions about psychosis makes it rather difficult for those living with the condition to gain employment and achieve their goals, a new Australian study finds. The study, published today in the Australian Journal of Psychology set out to examine the barriers there were to employment for people with psychosis. What is Psychosis? … Read More

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Future Schlock - Ariadne

Robert Hickson • Dec 07, 2015 •

A sure sign of when to be skeptical of futurists’ (or journalists’) predictions is if the title conforms to the “Why x is the future of y” narrative. That’s just future schlock. (As in “cheap or inferior goods or material”). Take, for example, 3D printing is the future of manufacturing, Why lab-grown meat is the future of food … Read More

Cute animal pictures are good for your work! - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Sep 28, 2012 •

Workers! Throw off your shackles!  Be not afraid to be seen by your boss cooing over Cute Overload! Hiroshi Nittono and colleagues, of Hiroshima University in Japan, have shown something most intriguing: that looking at ‘kawaii’ or cute images of baby animals improves focus and careful behaviour. It is, perhaps, not surprising that the research [...] … Read More

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