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Chinese Mortgage Boycott Gains Steam

Homebuyers’ threats to stop payments on unfinished projects could deepen an ongoing real estate crisis.

Foreign Policy

Wages growth should be skyrocketing on the back of Australia’s low unemployment. Is the system broken?

The hope for productivity driving wages growth will only occur if the labour market truly becomes fair

The Guardian - AU

Violence against Women Sparks Concerns in Algeria

A new investigation by Algeria’s National Health Institute revealed that one in ten women are experiencing violence at least six times per year. The results of the investigation showed that 69 percent of the attackers are educated males with an average age of 37 years, suggesting that “education is not…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Rhode Island auditor general reports $550 million in unemployment insurance fraud during pandemic

Rhode Island Auditor General Dennis Hoyle released a report on July 12, 2022, estimating the state paid $550 million of fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021. The figure was up over the previous fiscal year in which the state estimated $171 million of fraudulent…

Ballotpedia

FTSE 100 Live: Record pay squeeze revealed, unemployment rate holds firm

Pay in real terms is dropping faster than at any time since records began in 2001, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed today.

Evening Standard

North East unemployment falls slightly but remains highest in UK

New figures show real wages are falling nationally at the highest rate since records began in 2001

Chronicle Live

Unemployment falls but wages drop at fastest rate since 2001

The number of people in employment remains below pre-pandemic levels

Wales Online

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Labour shortage threatens Australia’s post-pandemic resurgence

Unemployment has hit a near 50-year low but companies are struggling to find workers

Financial Times

As Australian job vacancies double, which sectors are facing the biggest labour shortages?

With almost full employment, nearly everyone willing and able to work is in a position already. So which industries are feeling the squeeze, and why?

The Guardian - AU

Charles Darwin University returns to north-east Arnhem Land to deliver courses on country

University courses have returned to a far-flung corner of the Northern Territory, in a bid to try and turn around high unemployment rates, and skill people up in remote communities.

ABC News

Muslims’ high unemployment rate ‘not due to cultural and religious practices’

Study challenges idea poor outcomes are due to Muslims’ so-called ‘sociocultural attitudes’

The Guardian - UK

Opposition demands debate on Agnipath scheme in Monsoon Session of Parliament

Several Opposition parties, including TMC, BJD, Shiv Sena, TDP, Akali Dal, CPI(M),CPI, RSP and JMM, skipped the meeting chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker

The Hindu

Michael Pascoe: ‘Everyone’ was wrong about wages – and they may be again

Workers don’t think their boss is open to giving a fat pay increase, writes Michael Pascoe. Fears of a a wage-price spiral are well overblown.

The New Daily

Employment rate increasing in July after fall in June: CMIE

KOLKATA: After witnessing a steep fall in employment rate in June 2022, economic think-tank Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) has estimated that the trend has been reversing in the current month.

The Times of India

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The Conversation

Digital labour platforms subject global South workers to 'algorithmic insecurity'

Digital labour platforms are rapidly transforming the world of work. Many governments in the global south have welcomed platforms that bring businesses, workers and consumers together, creating opportunities to reduce unemployment. But what happens when jobs are turned into tasks? Workers are increasingly managed by apps that allocate these tasks…

The Conversation

Young people in the Middle East struggle to see a promising future

The Middle East’s population is growing almost twice as fast as the world overall, and one-third of its people are under the age of 15.

Bangkok Post

Is there upside to political polarisation?

While there are no ironclad laws of politics, two tendencies in the United States -- midterm swings against the incumbent party (the "midterm blues") and the negative electoral effects of inflation and unemployment ("political business cycles") -- come pretty close. US President Joe Biden (whose approval rating has sunk for…

Tribune News Service

US jobless claims rise to highest since November in holiday week

Applications for U.S. state unemployment insurance rose to the highest level since November during the week that included the July 4 holiday, led by a big jump in New York.

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The New Daily

‘Secret weapon’: Female jobs boom drives COVID recovery as unemployment rate falls

Women have emerged as a “secret weapon” driving Australia’s world leading COVID recovery, with a huge rise in female jobs easing labour shortages.

ABC News

The Loop: Authorities rush to slow new COVID-19 wave, unemployment drops again, and look out for the biggest supermoon of the year

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The Conversation

3.5% unemployment: Australia's jobless rate at its lowest since 1974

It’s not an academic way to start an article about Australia’s latest jobs numbers, but all I can think is “wow”.

The News Lens

Can India Tackle Its Population Challenge?

Around 22% of the global workforce over the next three decades is expected to come from India. Experts say unemployment in the country will be “a huge problem” if more skilled workers are not trained.

ABC News

Unemployment plunges to 3.5 per cent, with nearly 90,000 jobs added in June

Australia's official unemployment rate drops to 3.5 per cent, with an estimated 88,400 jobs added to the economy last month.

Irish Mirror

Man, 20s, arrested after PUP fraud amounting to €49,500 as gardai seize laptops, phones, cash and car

Gardaí attached to the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB), conducted the search as part of an ongoing investigation into the fraudulent claiming of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) and the laundering of the proceeds of international Business Email Compromise (BEC) frauds

AAP

Unemployment rate hit 48-year low in June

Economists are using words like "stunning" and "staggering" after Australia's unemployment rate fell to 3.5 per cent in June, the lowest rate since August 1974.

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