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

Search Results

Showing 141 - 150 of 367 results for %22Labour Force%22

Higher pension age to drive increase in early super releases

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... only a minority of the workforce. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 10% of Australia's 11.5 million labour force are labourers and a further 15% are technicians and trade workers. This 25% labour force share translates into 2.8 million ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... probably be some time yet before unemployment declines consistently." The RBA was obviously referring to April's labour force report that showed employers added a much larger than expected 18,100 staff over the month and the unemployment rate dropping ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... the details of the report reveals that this was mainly due to the a whopping 806K job seekers dropping out of the labour force.A The participation rate fell to 62.8% in April - the lowest level in 36 years -- from 63.2 in the previous month. Not good ...

Age Pension to rise to 70 by 2035

MARK SMITH, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... Male Total Average Weekly Earnings. The policy rationale for using this benchmark is weak as the increase in female labour force participation means a wage measure covering only males is an anachronism in the context of contemporary Australia." The commission ...

Think tank calls to end super tax concessions

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... superannuation and create a universal (non-means tested) age pension, similar to the approach taken in New Zealand where labour force participation among older people is higher than in Australia. "A universal pension would create a level playing field ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... to benchmark interest rates. Locally, in economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases labour force data for March. In equities news, Ten Network is expected to post first half results. In Australia, the market on Wednesday ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... on the order of around six months or that type of thing". Not last night. Janet talked about "considerable slack" in the labour market when she spoke before the national conference on community reinvestment in Chicago and that, "The scars from the Great ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... of the US employment report this week. This would be the first "clean" read (not weather-distorted) of the state of the labour market and speculations are it would be show improvement given the positive lead from weekly jobless claims.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... of the Crimea peninsula. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases February labour force data. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed lower, pulled down by weakness in the ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... is that yesterday's disappointing jobs report is not as bad as the headlines suggest. Mathematically, 6.0% of the labour force unemployed means that 94% are still at work. If it reaches the predicted 6.25%, then there'll still be 93.75% at work. Looked ...