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Editor's note
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If Australia’s big cities price themselves out of the market for talented workers, where will they go? In the US, writes Jason Twill, the spill-over effect benefits so-called second-tier cities, but Australia’s population is highly concentrated in just a few big cities. If skilled and mobile workers can’t find an affordable, desirable place to live and work in Australia, the global economy may lure them elsewhere – so what can we do to avoid that?
New research shows that reducing the gender wage gap could do more to lift productivity than increasing the number of university graduates in the workforce.
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Australia’s population is highly concentrated in a few cities, so once centres like Newcastle have absorbed the spill-over from high-cost capitals, where will the talent go?
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Jason Twill, University of Technology Sydney
Australia has few places to capture the spill-over of talented workers priced out of the big cities. Some may leave the country altogether – and where talent goes, capital flows.
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Business + Economy
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Tom Kennedy, University of New England; Abbas Valadkhani, Swinburne University of Technology; Alison Sheridan, University of New England; Maria Rae, Deakin University
A 10% reduction in gender income inequality can boost labour productivity by up to 3%, new analysis finds.
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Peter Wells, University of Technology Sydney
Free-to-air broadcasters have lost billions in the past decade. Slightly reducing license fees won't fix that.
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Arts + Culture
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Jess Carniel, University of Southern Queensland
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Huw Griffiths, University of Sydney
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Julian Meyrick, Flinders University
Fairfax's plans to reduce arts coverage as part of 125 jobs to go put Australia's cultural enterprise in jeopardy.
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Health + Medicine
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Joseph Paul Forgas, UNSW
Even though sadness and bad moods have always been part of the human experience, we live in an age that ignores or devalues them. But we've much to gain from feeling sad now and again.
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Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute
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Science + Technology
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Roger Lewis, University of Wollongong
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Bronwen Dalton, University of Technology Sydney
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Graham Farr, Monash University
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Rod Lamberts, Australian National University
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Politics + Society
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Rachael Sharman, University of the Sunshine Coast; Leanne Francia, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
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Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir, University of Melbourne
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra; Deep Saini, University of Canberra
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Tim Dwyer, University of Sydney
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Environment + Energy
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Jayanthi Kumarasiri, Swinburne University of Technology; Nava Subramaniam, RMIT University
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Hemant Ojha, UNSW; Eileen Baldry, UNSW; Krishna K. Shrestha, UNSW
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