From barrister to barista

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From Miranda Maxwell today:

“You need about three jobs in the service sector to make up for a job in the mining sector. You need about six in hospitality,” says ANZ co-head of Australian economics Felicity Emmett.

“You’re not getting that boost to household income that you would normally expect from such strong employment growth,” she says.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.