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Chief economist update: The outlook for Australia, according to COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... The lead from the ANZ job ads series - released a day before the RBA meeting - also supports its dim view of the labour market. Job ads in newspapers and on the web plummeted by 53.1% over the month of April and by 62.2% from a year earlier. The labour ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... But more than this, it's added to the challenges facing America's economy and its corporate sector. The US labour market has already deteriorated markedly just weeks into its lockdown - 701,000 workers lost their jobs in March and the unemployment ...

Millions jobless within weeks: Grattan

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... time may be different," Grattan's analysis read. "But the longer and more severe the downturn, the less likely the labour market can spring back afterwards."

Chief economist update: Surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... force survey's timing - it was taken in the first two weeks of March which, according to the ABS, "describes the labour market shortly before the major restrictions in Australia to contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19)". Australia's ...

Economic impact worst since WWII: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... for governments and policy-makers dealing with the fallout to have the most up-to-date data on the state of the labour market to make the right decisions."

Chief economist update: COVID-infected Aussie stats trickle in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... a 1.2% gain in Feb) - the fastest rate of decline since January 2009 that indicates further deterioration in the labour market going forward. Similarly, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) "International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia ...

Dow skyrockets in two-day winning streak

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... foundation to bring unemployment down and create positive reinforcing feedback loops in terms of activity, profits, labour market gains and investments," Perpetual said. "Risk markets will not have to see all four to begin their recovery, but investors ...

Australia narrowly avoids 0.9% GDP blow: KPMG

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... higher education and commodities, were delayed. These include productivity loss from workers withdrawing from the labour market because they are too sick to work or need to care for others, a temporary increase in the user cost of capital, demand shocks ...

Helping everyone helps women

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... that the global economy is losing $25 trillion in productivity as a result of discrimination against women in the labour market. That is a quarter increase, if we overcame this problem, in global productivity."

ISA takes swipe at Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... a higher living standard in retirement than they have while working," he said. ISA also said inequalities in the labour market are both "reflected and exaggerated" in the super system, calling for the removal of the minimum superannuation threshold. ...