Participation rate near record in latest job figures

22 March 2018

 

The Australian economy has recorded its seventeenth consecutive month of employment gains. The run of monthly consecutive gains has exceeded the fourteen month stretch from August 1979 to September 1980 and the fifteen months stretch from May 1993 to July 1994.  The ABS has released employment estimates for February which indicate the total number of people employed in Australia in either full-time or part-time work increased by 17,500. Market expectations...

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