Workers re-enter job market; unemployment rate ticks up

13 August 2020

 

Summary: Unemployment rate continues rise; June job gains revised up; employment number rises more than expected; part-time, full-time jobs both up; participation rate increases for second consecutive month; work hours rise more than employment over month; underemployment rate eases for third consecutive month; Victorian workers, businesses likely to suffer restriction effects in August, September; flow-on effects elsewhere expected.   Australia’s period of falling unemployment came to an end in early...

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