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Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... change, are more persistent or pervasive than assumed." Certainly looks like it. ABS data shows that the underemployment rate had risen above the 7.8% high (December quarter 2009) recorded during the global financial crisis starting in the third quarter ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... 9.5 per cent. There's also good news even in that stat that the bears use to make the scary spookier. The underemployment rate dropped to 16.1 per cent from 16.7 per cent. And this debate hasn't stopped here. There were counter-arguments and arguments ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... to 20 weeks in March from 19.4 weeks in the previous month. Also, we would be reading more about how the underemployment rate inched up to 16.9 per cent from 16.8 per cent. But no! Nien! Nyet! The positive tone on Wall Street even gave Robert Hall - ...
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