Australia unemployment and employment statistics

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• The casualisation of Australia’s workforce is nothing to panic about

  17 Oct 2014: Research suggests that a sizeable proportion of people working on a freelancers and casual basis are doing so out of choice

• The ABS data fiasco is the least of our worries on unemployment

  14 Oct 2014: Seasonally adjusted niggles aside, the trend is upwards and yet there is little policy response from Tony Abbott or Joe Hockey

• Paying for ABS data: experts warn Hockey idea 'extremely detrimental'

  9 Oct 2014: Peter Costello made access to ABS publications free in 2005, saying at the time that they were ‘the cornerstone of our decision-making’

• ABS jobs and unemployment figures – key questions answered by an expert

  9 Oct 2014: A professor of statistics at Monash University explains exactly what is seasonal adjustment, why it matters and what went wrong in the July and August figures

• ABS unemployment statistics face overhaul as Joe Hockey voices concerns

  8 Oct 2014: Treasurer says bureau of statistics lacks resources to update its systems and signals plan to make users pay for data

• ABS retracts data for August showing 121,000 new jobs were created

  8 Oct 2014: Bureau of Statistics to launch review into seasonally adjusted employment data that recorded largest swing in employment figures since records began in 1978

• Australia's unemployment rate set to be second worst in Asia-Pacific, says IMF

  7 Oct 2014: Financial organisation says only the Philippines likely to fare worse over the next two years

• The tough fight for jobs is not getting easier – and a turnaround is unlikely

  29 Sep 2014: The ABS job vacancy figures aren’t terrible, but they offer little comfort for the 764,000 Australians without work

• Job vacancies fall: fewer opportunities for Australians looking for work

  25 Sep 2014: There were fewer jobs available in the private sector, while there were more in the public sector

• Housing boom offsets collapse in mining jobs. Is the transition complete?

  22 Sep 2014: Building industry employment grew by 2.8% in the past year, and has been contributing more to growth of Australia’s employment than mining

• The hidden underclass: how Australian underemployment is concealed

  17 Sep 2014: Robert Carr: Getting to the bottom of underemployment means spotting where casualisation has created conditions in which employers can take advantage of workers’ desperation

• ABS employment figures for August: statistical aberration or recovery?

  15 Sep 2014: Surprisingly good news on employment this month was tempered by economists’ suspicion about the veracity of the data and rising underemployment, writes Greg Jericho

• Australia's unemployment rate falls to 6.1% in August

  11 Sep 2014: Economists says the drop in unemployment figures beat expectations and may hold back further interest rate cuts

• Slow, slow burn on the economy and jobless are feeling the heat

  14 Aug 2014: Australia’s unemployment situation for adults 25 to 64 has deteriorated as though there is a recession

• Australian wage growth stagnates as rising joblessness takes its toll

  13 Aug 2014: Increase is the equal lowest since records began 17 years ago as prices outstrip the rise in workers’ pay

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