Unemployment in detail: job insecurity deepens

Thursday 20 October 2016

As summarised earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has today released its labour force report for September, which registered a 9,800 decline in total employment but a 0.1% fall in the headline unemployment rate to 5.6%.

The result badly missed analysts’ expectations of 15,000 jobs growth.

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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.