employment – ricardian ambivalence

When +50k is -5k (maybe)

Getting right to the point, my view is that the Feb 2014 jobs report is bunkum. The survey is not

The Jan 2014 labour market report was BAD. The unemployment rate rose to 6% — exceeding the GFC peak —

There are some interesting stories in the October employment data. The macro news isn’t great, but the good(ish) news is that

These three charts summarise the state of the labour market — and the September employment report. The good news is

The May gross flows data suggests an ossifying labour market: if you have a job, you are more likely to

When it comes to the labour market survey, I mostly focus on the rates: the unemployment rate (see here for

The April employment report has led the the predictable ‘we was robbed’ response from many of those who got the

The ABS yesterday released the first part of the quarterly labour force detail (this was the bit showing the characteristics

The monthly labour market report has a way of making fools of people — but in the last two months

As is well known, the RBA’s easing bias is conditional upon inflation. For a few months now, the RBA has

[This is the third in a series looking at the February employment report: here are links back to the first

If you only know one thing about the labour market report, it is probably that the unemployment rate has been