Centre for Future Work
The Centre for Future Work is an initiative of the Australia Institute, to conduct and publish progressive economic research on work, employment, and labour markets.
It serves as a unique centre of excellence on the economic issues facing working people: including the future of jobs, wages and income distribution, skills and training, sector and industry policies, globalisation, the role of government, public services, and more.
The Centre will also develop timely and practical policy proposals to help make the world of work better for working people and their families.
Research Topics
- Banking & Finance
- Climate Change
- COVID-19
- Digital Technology & the Internet
- Education & Training
- Elections, Politics & Parties
- Electricity Markets & the Grid
- Employment & Unemployment
- Environment & Jobs
- Future of Work
- Gender at Work
- Gig Economy
- Governance & Government Agencies
- Health
- Identity & Freedom from Discrimination
- Industry & Sector Policies
- Inequality
- Infrastructure & Construction
- Insecure & Precarious Work
- Labour Standards & Workers' Rights
- Macroeconomics
- Media
- Population & Migration
- Public Sector, Procurement & Privatisation
- Retirement
- Science & Technology
- Social Security & Welfare
- Society & Culture
- Tax, Spending & the Budget
- Trade & Foreign Aid
- Transport
- Unions & Collective Bargaining
- Wages & Entitlements
- Wellbeing & Happiness
- Young Workers
Latest Research
Lost at Sea
An Assessment of the Productivity Commission’s Report on Container Port Productivity
Theft By Any Other Name: Go Home On Time Day 2022
Unsatisfactory Working Hours and Unpaid Overtime
Call Me Maybe (Not)
Working Overtime and A Right To Disconnect in Australia
Public Services in the Hunter
An Engine of Economic and Social Prosperity