Summary: Job ads down 0.5% in September; 22.3% higher than September 2021; advertisements “holding up well” several months into rate hike cycle; RBA may have to take cash rate further into restrictive territory to slow demand growth; ads-to-workforce ratio steady at 1.7%. From mid-2017 onwards, year-on-year growth rates in the total number of Australian job advertisements consistently exceeded 10%. That was until mid-2018 when the annual growth rate fell back...