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The summit needs to get us switching jobs. It'd make most of us better off

Written by Dan Andrews, Visiting Fellow and Director – Micro heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Performance program, 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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