Jan employment figures set new record

15 February 2018

 

The Australian economy has recorded its sixteenth 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 month stretch from May 1993 to July 1994.  The ABS released employment estimates for January which indicate the total number of people employed in Australia in either full-time or part-time work increased by 16,000. Market expectations prior...

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