Employment in detail: Not bad, could be better

Thursday 19 July 2018

As summarised earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released its labour force report for June, which registered a 50,900 increase in total employment but an unchanged headline unemployment rate of 5.4%, driven by rising labour force participation.

In trend terms, the unemployment rate fell marginally from 5.43% to 5.41%:

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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.