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Job mobility 12 per cent: ABS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
... extra 8 per cent was due to people entering the workforce. Significantly, of the 1.2 million people aged 15 to 69 who changed jobs, 55 per cent actually changed industry and 44 per cent changed occupations. The ABS said young people are much more likely ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
... billion a year, indeed the government's own modelling submission had claimed that a 10 cent increase would cost about 33,000 jobs and decrease GDP by about 0.2 per cent. Workers in the retail industry have the highest proportion of such minimum wage ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
... The release of monthly Australian Bureau of Statistics employment data yesterday revealed that in September about 31,400 jobs were added to the economy, taking the total to 271,000 over the last year. However, the number of people unemployed has dropped ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
The ANZ job advertisement series has shown that the total number of jobs in major metropolitan newspapers as well as the internet has risen by 0.3 per cent in September following the fall of 1.3 per cent in August of this year. The present level is ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2006
... production had fallen by about 30 per cent as a result of the imports to Europe and that there had been a loss of 40,000 jobs in the industry.

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2006
... 3.5 points to 5178.3 points. NEW YORK - US stocks slipped on Friday, snapping the Dow's three-day run to record highs, as jobs data renewed concern about slower economic growth and stubborn inflation. The Dow Jones industrial average closed 16.48 points ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
... production had fallen by about 30 per cent as a result of the imports to Europe and that there had been a loss of 40,000 jobs in the industry.

Funds must make it easier to amalgamate small accounts: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... superannuation industry must work harder to make amalgamations of small accounts easier. "Kids have got a whole lot of part-time jobs and every time they go to a new part-time job they seem to get a new industry super fund," said Costello. The Treasurer ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
... and ten times that amount a decade or so ago. Trend estimates show that there was a 4.1 per cent increase in private sector jobs and a 2.0 per cent increased in public sector jobs across the economy. The ACT had an additional 18,00 job vacancies, Queensland ...

Financial Standard launches eFinancialCareers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... jumped at the opportunity to work with such a high calibre group in Australia." FinancialStandard.eFinancialCareers features jobs spanning all sections of wealth management and as our industry is now so globally focused, their global reach should be ...