ABS employment in detail: Broad recovery, but underutilsation still a problem

Thursday 14 September 2017

As summarised earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released its labour force report for August, which registered a strong 54,200 increase in total employment but no material change to the headline unemployment rate (still 5.6%).

In trend terms, the unemployment rate fell marginally from 5.60% to 5.57%:

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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.