DEEWR job ads show bed pan boom

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The Department of Employment and Education’s monthly job ad survey is out and the headline sustained the modest growth trend in December:

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Still miles below previous cycles and hardly lighting it up

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A glance at the top job rises versus top falls is not overly exciting for the economy. Bed pans booming, productive jobs tanking:

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I expect that this is to some extent a secular trend as we age, still…

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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.
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