Unemployment rates: too good to be true?It’s employers who are keeping the unemployment rate down, but under-employment levels are rising. What difference does it make? Ross Gittins explains.
Unemployment figures
Just 800 more jobless for July
Despite gloomy expectations, Australia’s jobless rate remained steady at 5.8% last month, with a sharp, 32,000 rise in the number of people who found work.
Unemployment by electorate
Possum Comitatus gets wonky with the latest jobless figures, breaking down unemployment by electorate in a handy series of colour-coded maps.
Jobs down, again: turning point or statistical white noise?
The new rise in Australia’s unemployment could mean employers’ strategy of using “casualistion” as a buffer against falling demand has run its course and the job-shedding will pick up, writes Stephen Long.
The good economic news just keeps on coming
This is an economy coping remarkably well with a collapse in its terms of trade and a collapse in business lending.
ANZ job figures just in: 6.7% fall in job ads in June
The latest ANZ job figures out this morning will have analysts getting toey about the June labour force figures, due out on Thursday.
Good news on the unemployment front
So, unemployment doesn’t seem to have grown much this month – hardly the sky is falling nonsense we’ve been seeing from the sandwich board wearers at News Ltd, says Possum.
Political snippets: The government got it right on unemployment
Richard Farmer’s unemployment special with bonus graphs.
Our 5.7% jobless figure looks much nicer than the US 9.4%
The one point to be made with certainty from today’s jobless figures is that the Australian labour market is not as stricken by recession as America’s, or Europe’s, or Japan’s.
Fair suck of the sav: jobs, probability and the ABS
Remember last month the howls of incredulity when ABS unemployment figures were released showing a fall from 5.7 to 5.4%? Well, says Possum, the outrage was all for a 0.03% difference in the raw results’ accuracy!
Political snippets: Any poll at all will do for The Australian
Poll manipulation: it’s a national sport for Australia’s media, says Richard Farmer, and why Aussie journos are jealous of their British counterparts.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Unpaid journalistic internships: rort or opportunity?
Crikey readers debate the role of unpaid internships at The Punch, the controversial ABS unemployment figures and the Melbourne-Sydney divide.
Unexpected unemployment drop: what the pundits say
The announcement of unemployment figures sliding from 5.7 to 5.4% yesterday gave the media another chance to call an end to the recession. Or not.
Expectations confounded: jobless fall
Australia is now the only developed country with falling unemployment — it’s back to 5.4%.
Unemployment figures leave everyone gobsmacked
The April unemployment and jobless figures paint a picture of an economy in boom, not gloom.
Economists react to the drop in unemployment
Unemployment figures released this morning showed a 0.3% fall in the jobless rate in April, confounding analysts. Crikey asked the economists whether today’s data changed anything.
Could Australia’s unemployment rate hit 10%?
Unemployment has jumped from 3.9% to 5.7% in just over a year. But double figures? Peter Martin has two reasons why we could well expect a double-digit unemployment rate.
podcast Canberra Calling: Our exciting new broadband future delivered via rubber chicken.
NSW: bringing down the team in Australia’s workforce participation data while Jonathan Green, Bernard Keane and a rubber chicken embrace our exciting new broadband future.
SackWatch: The firings keep coming as job ads fall by 45%
Since Crikey published its sixth SackWatch update last week, the tips box has again been running rampant with fresh tales of shoulder-tapping in businesses across the nation, reports Andrew Crook.
Job ads plummet to a record low
March was another bad month for job ads in major newspapers and the internet, writes Glenn Dyer.
Sharp rise in unemployment rate: labour market’s turning sour
You have to look through today’s confusing Labour Force figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to get a true sense of the worsening state of the labour market, writes Glenn Dyer.
NSW corners the market in unemployment
NSW’s poor performnace is distorting Austalia’s unemployment statistics, writes Bernard Keane.
Eslake: On not spitting the dummy on Tasmania’s economy
Surely, if any State deserves the label ‘basket case’, it is New South Wales, not Tasmania, writes Saul Eslake.
Brough exercises his work choices, fires 8,000 workers
Indigenous affairs Mal Brough is forcing Aboriginal people out of work in order to make them reliant on welfare. Seems strange but there is a logic at work here, albeit a perverse political one. Read on.
