Is this an NDIS driven jobs boom?

By Leith van Onselen

Last month, I published data breaking down employment at the industry level to November 2017. This showed that Health Care & Social Assistance (+123,800), Construction (+91,500) and Retail Trade (+60,000) were the biggest employment gainers over the year to November:

It also showed that Health Care & Social Assistance (+565,200), Professional, Scientific and Technical Services (+242,100), Education (+217,700), Accommodation & Food Services (+183,800), and Construction (181,800) have been the big job gainers since the GFC:

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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.