Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1561 - 1570 of 1732 results for "Unemployment"

Economic round-up: Rescheduling retirement

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
... reveals the proportion of working age population participation has been rising with employment. It is hardly news that unemployment is historically low, but Davies' research shows that this is now the case across all age groups. Unemployment rates have ...

Economic round-up: Manufacturing out run by fitness

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... some time, while business and property services are forecasting a meagre 2.1 annual employment growth. While our unemployment rate sits at 4.2 per cent, according to DEWR, school leavers completing only year 10 face more than double that unemployment ...

Economic round up: GDP vs. gross domestic happiness

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
There's just no pleasing some people. Consumer optimism has fallen despite another drop in unemployment and our continuing material and economic prosperity, showing that happiness is clearly not rising with our material success. According to a recent ...

Economic round-up: Money cant buy you love

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... year economic conditions and views about current buying conditions for major household items. Evaluations of future unemployment are also recorded in each month's survey. The flipside of all this optimism is that confidence usually leads to higher spending ...

Mining may halt but football endures

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... prices increase. The mining industry, which has contributed in no small part to our economic buoyancy and record low unemployment rates, is also being hit. Newcrest Mining's Cadia Hill goldmine is to wait for on a decision whether it will receive 450 ...

Can the cash-fest save our competitiveness?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
... costs are nothing to be proud of at 38th. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures out today show that Australia's unemployment dropped another 0.1 percentage point to 4.0 per cent in the last month and the participation rate increased by 0.2 percentage ...

Consulting the cows

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... about hosing scum from the streets. France's economy has grown more slowly than any other developed country and its unemployment rate is the highest in Europe at 9.8 per cent - even grimmer for under 24s where around 25 per cent are jobless. It's difficult ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... why rents haven't completely gone through the roof. Prime Minister John Howard remains upbeat and says Australia's unemployment levels can be kept "for years" at their current 30-year lows. That's good news for Australians in our "very resilient labour ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... increase of 10,500 jobs and resulted in overall employment growth to falling from 2.9 per cent to 2.7 per cent. The unemployment rate in WA fell from 3 per cent to 2.7 per cent which is the lowest level recorded since employment statistics were first ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... participation rate increased by 0.3 points over the last year, the best news is that there was a 8.4 per cent fall in unemployment on a year to date basis. Official figures record that there are now 493,100 Australian unemployed which according to other ...