ABS employment in detail: mega boom!

Thursday, 17 June 2021

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released its labour force report for May, which registered another 0.3% fall in the official unemployment rate to 5.1% off a whopping 0.9% increase in the number of jobs:

Massive fall in headline unemployment.

Full-time jobs rose by 97,500 in May whereas part-time jobs rose by 17,700:

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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.