Australia’s Unemployment Rate Drops Under 5 Percent For The First Time In A Decade
According to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia’s unemployment rate has dropped to 4.8 percent, with just under 30,000 jobs being created in the month of June 2021. These figures indicate that the nation’s unemployment rate has now declined for eight consecutive months, taking the unemployment rate to its lowest level in […]
Australia’s Unemployment Is the Lowest It’s Been Since February 2020
Recently released figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has shown that Australia’s unemployment rate is continuing to fall. The latest data shows the unemployment rate dropping 0.4 percent points to 5.1 percent during the month of May 2021. The figures published by the ABS revealed that approximately 115,000 Australians found new positions of […]
The End Of JobKeeper Has Cost 56,000 Jobs To Date
Newly released data from Single Touch Payroll has revealed that 56,000 workers who were previously on JobKeeper have lost their jobs. This is an increase in 16,000 which is up from the figures of 40,000 jobs from the data published two weeks ago. “The data suggested that up to 40,000 former JobKeeper workers lost employment […]
Australia’s Unemployment Has Fallen To 5.5 Percent Despite JobKeeper Ending
Recent figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have revealed that Australia’s unemployment has fallen to 5.5 percent. This has surprised many people, due to the fact that when the federal government’s JobKeeper wage subsidy ended on the 28th March it was anticipated to create a cliff that would plunge thousands of workers […]
The Current Rate of Underemployment in Australia
When the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases its monthly survey of the labour force, a person is only required to work a minimum of 1 hour a week to be considered as “employed”. On the surface this might make people believe that the government is trying to manipulate the unemployment data to make the […]
The Fallout of JobKeeper Has Been Overstated
The Australian Government has revealed that between 16,000 and 40,000 workers who were on JobKeeper during its final stage have lost employment since the $90 billion wage subsidy program was discontinued on Sunday 28th March. The recently released figures, are drawn from estimates from Single Touch Payroll microdata for the fortnight ended Sunday 11th April, […]
Youth Unemployment in Australia During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Over 870,000 Australians lost their jobs during the first few months of the covid-19 pandemic. Around 38% or 332,200 of these Australian workers were young Australian aged between 15 and 24. By June 2020, as Australia’s overall unemployment rate hit 7.4%, the youth unemployment rate jumped to 16.4%, with a further 19.7% underemployed. An underemployed […]