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If productivity was the magical fix some claim, we wouldn't need a jobs summit

  • Written by Jim Stanford, Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here.


The Treasury issues paper published in the lead-up to the Albanese government’s Jobs and Skills Summit runs to 11 pages of text. It mentions productivity 21 times.

It’s a safe bet that...

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