Jobs vacancies fall in July

Wednesday 24 August 2016

The Department of Employment (DoE) has released its Internet Vacancy Index (IVI) for July, which registered a decline in the number of job vacancies over the month, with the trend also fairly weak:

The decline in vacancies was broad-based, with all jurisdictions except South Australia experiencing falls in July:

Blue collar workers mostly experienced rises in vacancies in July, whereas white collar workers experienced falling vacancies.

Full report here.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.