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Is education or immigration the answer to our skills shortage? We asked 50 economists

Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

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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.

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