• Pandemic Pressures: Job Security and Customer Relations for Retail Workers 

      Vromen, Ariadne; Lipton, Briony; Cooper, Rae; Foley, Meraiah; Rutledge-Prior, Serrin
      Published 2021
      This report offers insights into the challenges faced by retail, fast-food, and distribution workers during the pandemic and recent lockdowns. In focus is the impact on job security and worker-customer relations during ...
      Open Access
      Report, Research
    • Technology and skills in the future of retail work: A summary of findings 

      Lipton, Briony; Vromen, Ariadne; Rutledge-Prior, Serrin; Good, Laura; Cooper, Rae; Foley, Meraiah
      Published 2022-08-08
      Retail work is undergoing profound transformation, with rapid changes including digitisation, the collection and use of big data, and automation reshaping the industry and the skills required to work within it. These ...
      Open Access
      Report, Research
    • What do women want from work post-pandemic? A qualitative study of women in Western Sydney. 

      Cooper, Rae; Hill, Elizabeth
      Published 2022-05-02
      This report shows that the working women of Western Sydney expect and want to work in good jobs that provide economic security for themselves and their families. They want access to high-quality flexible working options, ...
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      Report, Research
    • Global combinations of expert forecasts 

      Qian, Yilin; Thompson, Ryan; Vasnev, Andrey L
      Published 2022
      Expert forecast combination—the aggregation of individual forecasts from multiple subjectmatter experts— is a proven approach to economic forecasting. To date, research in this area has exclusively concentrated on local ...
      Open Access
      Working Paper
    • Signalling Success: Evaluation of the Success Works Pilot Program 

      van den Broek, Diane; Black, Prudence
      Published 2022-07-28
      The Success Works Pilot Program (SWPP) was established in January 2019 as an initiative of Dress for Success Sydney (DfS). The program is administered through Dress for Success Sydney and run out of their Marrickville ...
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      Report, Research