ABS Labour mobility was out yesterday and shows the Great Resignation is well and truly over, if it ever was. the job mobility rate decreased to 7.7% younger workers were more mobile than older workers, with 12% of people aged 15 to 24 years changing jobs 2.2 million people left or lost a job The annual
Outfits like the Grattan Institute argue that Australia needs to maintain a high immigration policy to maximise productivity growth. Their analysis consistently overlooks the empirical evidence showing that Australia’s productivity growth declined as immigration surged. Australia has experienced the strongest population growth in the advanced world this century, yet its productivity performance has been abysmal.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said that it was awaiting two vital pieces of data before lowering rates: the June labour force report and the Q2 CPI inflation print. The June labour force figures printed weaker than expected, with the headline unemployment rate rising to 4.31%—above the RBA’s latest projection. Full-time jobs contracted sharply,
Ferrous is up and down again. At these prices, Indian ore will flow. Any push higher and they will gush. Meanwhile, Chinese property is still stuffed. Goldman. Sales are no bueno. Inventory improvement stalling. Completions are a bit better. The Politburo is in the next few days, so look out for more yawnulus.
The issue of productivity and its impact on real earnings has been a major source of debate among Australian economists since the Global Financial Crisis. With productivity in headline terms flatlining for the best part of the last decade, except for the lockdown and closed border-driven bump seen during the pandemic, the issue has recently
The Australian’s Judith Sloan has challenged Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ claim that the federal government has “made a lot of progress together in our first term making our economy more productive, dynamic, and resilient”. Sloan noted that labour productivity is at 2016 levels and business investment’s share of the economy is similar to that of the
DXY is bottoming again. The Australian dollar has been trading a solid up channel. But at the lows it risks breaking. Lead boots are going nowhere. Gold is stuck, oil bouncing on Russia risk. Metals mania is caput. Big mining bear fully intact. EM toppy. Junk is all blue skies. Yields quiescent. Stocks faded. There
Wall Street failed to make new highs overnight as risk markets await the looming Fed meeting and Friday’s jobs numbers amid absorbing the latest trade “frameworks of deals that likely won’t be respected” as peripheral nations still wait the 20-25% proposed tariff slog by the Trump regime, including Australia. The USD remains highs against
The federal government was advised by eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant to scrap YouTube’s exemption from laws banning people under the age of 16 from using social media, which are scheduled to take effect in December. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appeared with David Spears on ABC Insiders over the weekend, where Albanese claimed that the eSafety
You do not have this high an agreement on whether the Earth is round. AFR. Research by pollster Redbridge for the Australian Pipelines and Gas Association – which represents “downstream” gas businesses – found voter support for a domestic gas reserve at 86 per cent, while less than 5 per cent of voters expressed any