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Black market jobs cost Australia billions and youth are at the coalface

  • Written by Shirley Jackson, PhD Candidate in Political Economy, University of Melbourne

Young people, job creation and taxation have all been at the centre of the federal election campaign; yet almost nothing has been said about one of the sleeper issues these have in common - the cash-in-hand economy.

Youth unemployment is typically twice the national unemployment rate. Millennials are finding it harder to secure full-time work after...

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