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BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – February 2025
— Surprise 52,800 drop in the number of persons employed. — — Unemployment rate remains at 4.1 per cent thanks to big drop in participation. — — Direction of labour market difficult to read amidst volatility and revisions to previous... Read article
— Surprise 52,800 drop in the number of persons employed. — — Unemployment rate remains at 4.1 per cent thanks to big drop in participation. — — Direction of labour market difficult to read amidst volatility and revisions to previous... Read article
Presentation: Youth in Focus: Navigating wellbeing in a changing world
View the slides from Youth in Focus: Navigating wellbeing in a changing world report launch, presented by Professor Astghik Mavisakalyan and Professor Mike Dockery on March 13 at Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. About the report The eleventh report in... Read article
View the slides from Youth in Focus: Navigating wellbeing in a changing world report launch, presented by Professor Astghik Mavisakalyan and Professor Mike Dockery on March 13 at Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. About the report The eleventh report in... Read article
Youth in Focus: Navigating wellbeing in a changing world
Youth in Focus: Navigating wellbeing in a changing world, the eleventh report in the BCEC Focus on the States series, provides a comprehensive analysis of the priorities and perspectives of young Australians, offering key insights to shape future policy development.... Read article
Youth in Focus: Navigating wellbeing in a changing world, the eleventh report in the BCEC Focus on the States series, provides a comprehensive analysis of the priorities and perspectives of young Australians, offering key insights to shape future policy development.... Read article
Executive Summary: Youth in Focus: Navigating wellbeing in a changing world
This Executive Summary is a printable summary of the key findings and recommendations from the BCEC report, Youth in Focus: Navigating wellbeing in a changing world, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the priorities and perspectives of young Australians, offering... Read article
This Executive Summary is a printable summary of the key findings and recommendations from the BCEC report, Youth in Focus: Navigating wellbeing in a changing world, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the priorities and perspectives of young Australians, offering... Read article
Top-performing girls are more impactful peer role models than boys, teachers say
We examine teachers’ perceptions toward top-performing students and their role model influence on others in an online survey-based experiment. We randomly expose teachers to profiles of top-performing students and inquire whether they consider the profiled top performers to be influential... Read article
We examine teachers’ perceptions toward top-performing students and their role model influence on others in an online survey-based experiment. We randomly expose teachers to profiles of top-performing students and inquire whether they consider the profiled top performers to be influential... Read article
Gendered language and gendered violence
Highlights Gendered language and intimate partner violence are correlated at country level. Speaking a gendered language is linked with acceptance of intimate partner violence. The effect of grammatical gender works through a cultural and a cognitive channel. Abstract This study... Read article
Highlights Gendered language and intimate partner violence are correlated at country level. Speaking a gendered language is linked with acceptance of intimate partner violence. The effect of grammatical gender works through a cultural and a cognitive channel. Abstract This study... Read article
Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia
Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, the eighteenth report in the BCEC Focus on WA series, seeks to better understand the startup and innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, to inform policies that support entrepreneurship and... Read article
Dare to Venture: Startups and the innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, the eighteenth report in the BCEC Focus on WA series, seeks to better understand the startup and innovation ecosystem in Western Australia, to inform policies that support entrepreneurship and... Read article
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – September 2024
— Nationally 64,100 jobs added in September as male full-time employment surges 1.1 per cent in a single month. — — Unemployment rate steady at 4.1 per cent, after August figure revised down. — — Public sector employment growth conflicting with... Read article
— Nationally 64,100 jobs added in September as male full-time employment surges 1.1 per cent in a single month. — — Unemployment rate steady at 4.1 per cent, after August figure revised down. — — Public sector employment growth conflicting with... Read article
BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – August 2024
Sustained jobs growth continues to stymie rate cut hopes Monthly labour force survey estimates continue to defy expectations of a downturn in the labour market. Nationally employment increased by 47,500 persons in August. That’s the third month in a row... Read article
Sustained jobs growth continues to stymie rate cut hopes Monthly labour force survey estimates continue to defy expectations of a downturn in the labour market. Nationally employment increased by 47,500 persons in August. That’s the third month in a row... Read article
Dimensions and prevalence of decent work in Australia
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8) focuses on decent work and economic growth. It promotes decent work for the benefits it provides to individuals, businesses, investors and the economy. At the business level, these benefits include improved productivity, strengthened... Read article
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8) focuses on decent work and economic growth. It promotes decent work for the benefits it provides to individuals, businesses, investors and the economy. At the business level, these benefits include improved productivity, strengthened... Read article
Appendix: Dimensions and prevalence of decent work in Australia
APPENDIX United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8) focuses on decent work and economic growth. It promotes decent work for the benefits it provides to individuals, businesses, investors and the economy. At the business level, these benefits include improved productivity,... Read article
APPENDIX United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8) focuses on decent work and economic growth. It promotes decent work for the benefits it provides to individuals, businesses, investors and the economy. At the business level, these benefits include improved productivity,... Read article
Presentation: Gender Equity Insights 2024: The changing nature of part-time work in Australia
View the publication by lead authors Professor Alan Duncan, Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, and Dr Silvia Salazar, Senior Research Fellow, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, from the launch of the report Gender Equity Insights 2024: The changing nature of part-time work... Read article
View the publication by lead authors Professor Alan Duncan, Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, and Dr Silvia Salazar, Senior Research Fellow, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, from the launch of the report Gender Equity Insights 2024: The changing nature of part-time work... Read article
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.