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Unemployment rate 5.6% in December: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2004
... a 14-year low of 5.6%, new figures showed today. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that total employment rose by 29,600 to 9.66 million, on a seasonally adjusted basis. Full-time jobs increased by 16,100 to 6.93 million, while part-time ...

Jobless rate stuck at 14-year lows in November: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2003
... Statistics (ABS) said businesses put on 27,900 full-time staff in November but a fall in part-time jobs kept the total employment gain down to 20,700. The rise was double market expectations, and comes on top of strong jobs gains in the last few months ...

Economists expect a small rise in employment in November

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2003
... economist Kris Bernie said he expected a month of consolidation in November after the massive gains of October. The rise in employment over the past three months had been 164,500, he said. "We're expecting a consolidation in employment with a flat outcome ...

Business conditions strong, but confidence falls: survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2003
... months, and in November it rose by a further two points to an index of 20 points - two points higher than in late 1994. Employment picked up further in November, up six points to an index of 17 points. Sizeable gains in most sectors more than offset ...

Increase in newspaper and internet job advertisements: ANZ

... to have had little, if any, obvious impact on employer's hiring intentions," said ANZ Chief Economist Saul Eslake. "Employment growth at this pace would be sufficient to push the employment rate down to 5 A1/2 % - lower than in any month since June 1981 ...

Business expectations deteriorating: ACCI/Westpac

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2003
... quarter. Export deliveries doubled, new orders rose strongly, and capacity utilisation rose to a 15-year high, although employment softened. But forward projections of orders plunged and the higher Aussie dollar was expected to cut exports back, while ...

Greater fiscal discipline needed: OECD

... the income support system should aim at strengthening the incentives of welfare recipients to participate in gainful employment. The unemployment rate is slated to dip from six percent in 2003, to 5.9% in 2004 and 5.7% in 2005. The GDP at market prices ...

66,000 new jobs in Australia for February quarter: forecast

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2003
... Australia in the 2003/04 February quarter, according to a new report out today. The second quarterly Sydney Morning Herald Employment Forecast said the global economic recovery and a rebound in tourism should take some of the sting out of the looming ...

Treasury warns on global recovery

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2003
... continue, after new figures today showed vacancies for skilled workers rose 1.7 per cent in November. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations said skilled vacancies were 2.8 per cent higher than the same time last year, with the strongest ...

Skilled vacancies index up 1.7% in November

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2003
... slowing after new figures today showed vacancies for skilled workers rose 1.7 per cent in November. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) said its skilled vacancies index rose to 114.9 in November, 2.8 per cent higher than the same ...