wages

Strong unit labour costs account for the bulk of high domestic inflation.

Recent data on both job vacancies and worker mobility show that Australia's labour market is continuing to tighten, pointing to ongoing reductions in the...

February’s reporting season was unusual. At a time of year when focus is typically on earnings, these were largely overshadowed by macro-economic events. War and...

Wages growth is responding to a tighter labour market, with sub-4% unemployment likely to pressure the RBA as it contemplates raising rates later this year. At the...

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...

An analysis of the industry split of wages shows why the RBA is sceptical that wages can accelerate fast enough to justify market expectations of rate hikes next year....

In the AFR today I write about what an incredible week it was for markets. The fourth-largest monthly decline in unemployment on record and yet the Aussie dollar fell...

The RBA has published a fascinating new research paper on "underemployment", which has increased noticeably since the GFC. The underemployment rate is defined as the...

The most important question for 2018 in an Australian context will be whether the economy is strong enough for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to start removing...