Category Archives: Labour Market

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So far, so good. But what happens when we check out the profile of the 20 to 25 percent of jobs which come late to the party?

Big Data Improves with Age

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When it comes to their new Weekly Payroll Jobs and Wages series, the ABS this week agreed with our ADS post of October 6, 2020: Newer isn’t always better (reproduced below.) With their latest payroll data release this week, the ABS announced it would extend the time between the final payroll period and the release


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Rubbery Jobs Figures I had a little piece in The Australian today on some of the modelling and mapping work we’ve been doing recently at Education Geographics, mostly for schools.

Rubbery Jobs Figures

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I had a little piece in The Australian today on some of the modelling and mapping work we’ve been doing recently at Education Geographics, mostly for schools. Australian subscribers can find the link here: https://tinyurl.com/283vk8cy Distinguished Australian Economist Saul Eslake estimates that closing our international borders to tourists and international students is costing us about


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We Told You So..

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JobMaker misses the real target by John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, November 17, 2020 Today’s ABS Single Touch Payroll data confirms that JobMaker has come too late to help younger workers displaced by Covid job lockdowns and it is now missing the real target – older workers in retirement and tourist regions. Outside of


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What’s in an Age?

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Covid Jobs Update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, October 12, 2020 Some economists, trade unions and the Labor Opposition say the Federal Government’s JobMaker Budget proposal which subsidises wages only for eligible workers less than 35 years old should be open to eligible workers of any age. They argue that the current policy


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Covid Jobs update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, October 6, 2020.

Newer Isn’t Always Better

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Covid Jobs update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, October 6, 2020. A week or so back we provided a profile of how the broader Australian stereotypes were faring under Covid jobs lockdowns and today we’re urging a bit of caution when it comes to rushing to judgement on the latest payroll stats –


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Watching The Watchers

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Covid Jobs update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, September 23, 2020. So which groups and regions have been losing jobs under the Covid-19 job lockdowns? Not necessarily who you’d have thought, as it turns out. And what impact is losing your job likely to have on your vote? Frankly, the polls seem to


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Jobs Recovery was underway in May following intial hit in March / April.

Jobs Recovery Was Underway In May Following Initial Hit In March/April

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The recovery in many jobs was well under way in May. It’s been most pronounced in those hit first in March/April, working in hospitality, young home buyers, young casual workers also studying at TAFE and this is all to the good. The downturn however continued in May among farming and rural communities, especially fishing (think


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Impact on Australian Employment by COVID-19 21st May20 20

Impact on Australian Employment by COVID-19

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We trace the jobs impact of the Covid-19 labour market shutdown in a news article and a linked online story map published in The Australian today. The story outlines the evidence that the jobs downturn impacts announced by the Prime Minister in late March were sudden and deep and that since then, there have already


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Australian Labour Force May 2017

TRADIES UP, BUT CLERKS & SALES JOBS DISAPPEAR

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The national Year on Year employment to population ratio and the participation rate stopped their downward slide during the February labour market quarter and during the May quarter both were moving in a positive direction. If we smooth the original data out to a 12-month moving average we see the start of what looks like


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MIDDLE CLASS JOBS HOLLOWING OUT

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78,300 full time jobs were lost for Tradesmen and Tradeswomen in the past year, virtually all of them in the private sector. 65,700 of these full-time jobs lost were formerly held by Tradesmen. 55,500 full time clerical and admin jobs were lost last year. 51,400 of these were former full time jobs in the private