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- Courier-Mail & 612 ABC Brisbane media this week regarding jobs growth & small business
- Bigger is better – small businesses once employed over half of private sector workers but no longer
- Unmissable upcoming Lowy Institute Choosing Openness paper launch with Andrew Leigh
- With One Nation as likely power brokers, expect greater share of Qld Gov’t CAPEX in regions
- Strong jobs figures for Qld, although much of recent increase was in part-time employment
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Top Posts & Pages
- Courier-Mail & 612 ABC Brisbane media this week regarding jobs growth & small business
- Bigger is better - small businesses once employed over half of private sector workers but no longer
- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- Michael Porter on Cairns's tourism cluster
- Townsville’s double digit unemployment rate signifies major downturn in region
- Protectionist Buy Queensland policy unlikely to survive in current form
- Post-Viridian, bodies corporate need economists - guest post by Stephen Thornton
- Growing interstate migration to Qld reflects improving economy & relatively more affordable house prices
- Gold Coast should worry less about its over-reliance on property, tourism and retail
- Queenslanders less active than other Australians - no surprise we lead Australia in obesity
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Tag Archives: labourforce
Rising workforce participation reflects improved jobs market in Qld
I have been commenting on Queensland’s improving labour market for several months now, and the July labour force data released by the ABS yesterday have confirmed that trend is continuing. The State’s unemployment rate remained stable at 6.3 percent in … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, construction, employment, jobs, labourforce, participation, qld, qldtreasury, queensland, unemployment
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On the upcoming Ted Evans lecture & Qld’s recent employment trends
On 14 September, the Economic Society of Australia (Qld), of which I am the Secretary, is hosting the inaugural Ted Evans Public Policy Lecture at Customs House, Brisbane. The inaugural lecturer will be none other than former Treasury Secretary Ted … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, esaqld, jobs, labourforce, publicservice, qld, queensland, tedevans, treasury
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Qld full-time jobs growth since election back in positive territory
In April, full-time employment in Queensland continued to recover and is now back above the level that prevailed at the time of the last State election in January 2015, in terms of the trend data that Queensland Treasury prefers to … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, cciq, construction, election, jobs, labourforce, newman, palaszczuk, qld, qldtreasury, queensland
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Gig economy and baby boomers easing into retirement would partly explain why jobs growth mostly part-time
The July labour force data released by the ABS yesterday were good news for Australia and Queensland, with the unemployment rate falling in seasonally adjusted terms for both Australia, from 5.8% to 5.7%, and for Queensland, from 6.4% to 6.1%. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged abs, australia, babyboomers, employment, gigeconomy, jobs, labourforce, labourforcesurvey, qld, queensland, retirement, uber, unemployment, unemploymentrate
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IR reforms could improve employment opportunities for young Australians
Almost eight years after the 2008 financial crisis, young Australians still face a significantly tougher job market than before the crisis. To illustrate, the employment-to-population ratio for young Australians aged 15 to 24 remains well below rates experienced prior to … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, australia, employment, fairworkact, ir, jobs, labourforce, penaltyrates, youngaustralians
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Qld unemployment rate creeps up to 6.5 percent due to ongoing weakness in regions
NAB Chief Economist Alan Oster had a memorable quote regarding the latest NAB Business Survey results published in The Australian yesterday: “West Australia is going backwards, South Australia is in no great shakes and Northern Queensland is just as bad, … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, australia, jobs, labourforce, labourforcesurvey, qld, queensland, townsville, unemployment, unemploymentrate
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Qld unemployment rate trends up and jobs trend down
The April 2016 ABS jobs data confirm the view I have expressed for a while now that the Queensland economy is under-performing (see charts below and Treasury’s brief). While in South-East Queensland conditions appear reasonable, the regions are struggling with … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, australia, jobs, labourforce, payrolltax, qld, qldtreasury, queensland, tradinghours, uber
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