Job vacancies still following the bubble states

Thursday 28 September 2017

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released job vacancies data for the August quarter, which recorded a 6.0% seasonally adjusted rise over the quarter and a 3.9% rise in trend terms:

Over the year, job vacancies rose by 15.4% in seasonally adjusted terms and by 14.0% in trend terms.

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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.