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JobKeeper saved 700,000 jobs: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
One in five Australians who received the JobKeeper payment would not have stayed employed this year without it, according to a research paper from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The Morrison government announced a series of fiscal measures at ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... markets that were expecting total jobs numbers to drop by 40,000 over the month as the government scaled back of its JobKeeper subsidy payments - with strong gains in both full-time and part-time employment in October. Full-time employment increased ...

Chief economist update: A wonderful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... expecting total jobs numbers to drop by 40,000 over the month in response to the government's scaling back of its JobKeeper subsidy payments. The latest employment number has reduced the total jobs lost this year from more than 917,000 to just around ...

Chief economist update: Australian wages slow but still grow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... sector wages growth slowed to 1.2% from 1.7%. Public sector wages slowed to 1.8% from 2.1%. The Morrison government's Jobkeeper scheme has short-circuited the lagged negative correlation between wages growth and the underemployment rate. We would ...

Chief economist update: Budget me this Batman

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... right now (Keynesian economics) - "in the long run we are all dead". Were it not for the government's largesse - JobKeeper, JobSeeker, HomeBuilder - us, Australians all, would be "dead" now or are dying... or our economy is. This is evidenced in ...

Effects of ERS not so bad: Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... Danielle Woods said the ERS scheme was incredibly important in providing support to households that needed it. "The JobKeeper scheme was also important, but for those higher income earners it was still a significant pay cut and so some people chose to ...

Opposition in opposition: Labor responds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... growth." Chalmers said while the average Australian workers will receive a $50 per fortnight tax cut, millions on the JobKeeper program have seen their payment cut by at least $300 per fortnight. "Despite producing a grab-bag of headline-seeking announcements ...

Frydenberg focusses on jobs, jobs, jobs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... December quarter of this year, before falling over the next few years as the economy recovers. Without support like the JobKeeper program, the government forecasted that unemployment would be between 11% and 13%. The JobKeeper program will continue at ...

ERS extension flagged, criticised

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... checking of applications signals many in Canberra also viewed the scheme as a useful economic stimulus," ISA said. "With JobKeeper scaling back and JobSeeker's future rate uncertain opening up super again would signal the government wants Australians ...

No evidence lower SG will result in higher wages: ACTU summit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... nation. "There is a lot of pain out there and the issues we are talking about here came about because of bad policy. JobKeeper did not extend to a lot of casual workers and women who otherwise wouldn't have needed to access the ERS scheme," Hewson said. ...