Ahead of ABS, Roy Morgan unemployment falls

Thursday, 15 September 2016

Ahead of the ABS’ labour force release later today, the latest Roy Morgan Research (RMR) unemployment estimate for August registered a 0.1% fall in unemployment to 10.4%, although the unemployment rate is still 1.2% higher than a year ago. However, there has been a bounce back in full-time jobs.

According to Gary Morgan:

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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.