unemployment

This week’s charts begin by visualising the steady increase in foreign workers hosted by historically immigration-averse Japan.

The RBA is worried by high inflation and wants to anchor expectations.

This week’s charts visualise different effects of inflation

Roll up, roll up, we have yet another labour force surprise. But it's not the surprise we are used to. The good news? For the first time since 1974, unemployment is...

With the RBA about to start raising rates for the first time since 2010, it will be trying to manage a challenging economic mix of very low unemployment and high...

The RBA should continue to wind back the policy stimulus delivered during the pandemic when it meets next month. The RBA will stop buying government bonds and there is...

The lowest unemployment rate in years raises the risk that the RBA not only stops buying bonds next month (which is now widely expected by market participants) but...

The Delta outbreak has seen a big decline in hours worked, a fall in employment and a lower unemployment rate. The Delta outbreak has seen a large hit to activity in...

Philip Lowe’s recent comments on the impacts of migration were basic economic analysis but hit a raw nerve for those invested in Australia’s population Ponzi scheme....

The closure of Australia's international border has seen a collapse of non-resident employment as foreign workers returned home. This has contributed to the largest...