Labour market snapshots
December 2023: 'Summer reading for Australian labour economics nerds: 1970s to 1990s'
November 2023: Will wage growth push us off the narrow path?
October 2023 #2: Still slowing: A brief update on the labour market from May to September
October 2023 #1: The full employment objective: My interpretation
March 2023: Why is wage growth so low when the rate of unemployment is 3.5%? Part 1
November 2022 #2: The persistence of occupational segregation in Australia
November 2022 #1: Four things happening in the labour market
September 2022: How immigration keeps Australia young and the participation rate rising
July 2022: The Great Resignation and Great Retirement: Where are we up to in Australia?
June 2022: Stagflation in Australia in the 1970s: What happened and implications for today?
May 2022 #2: Can Australia achieve a soft labour market landing?
May 2022 #1: Labour market tightness today - and a comparison with the mining boom
January 2022: Using the December rate of unemployment to look ahead
September 2021: How was the Australian labour market affected by the (China) import shock?
March 2021 #2: Another reason why Australia's target rate of unemployment should be low
March 2021 #1: Another step forward, but how many steps backward are we about to go?
February 2021 #2: Who lost jobs (and got them back) in 2020?
February 2021 #1: What does recovery look like? Time to take account of population growth
December 2020 #2: There, and almost all the way back (Keynes does it again)
November 2020: Would a rise in JobSeeker affect incentives for paid work?
October 2020: Fear or government: How has COVID-19 affected the economy and labour market?
September 2020 #2: But for Victoria...: July to August in the Australian labour market
September 2020: Structural change in the Australian labour market: What will be the COVID-19 effect?
August 2020 #2: Hiring credit (wage subsidy) programs: Extra thoughts
August 2020 #1: Slowing recovery and a two-speed labour market in Australia
July 2020 #2: About the rate of unemployment: It's difficult
July 2020#1: The labour market in Australia - Update to June: A step to recovery
June 2020 #2: The labour market in Australia- Update to May: What is new?
June 2020#1: Female and male employment during recessions in Australia: Then and now
May 2020 #3: Where are we? Where are we going? The need for a transition
May 2020 #1: Five labour market policy challenges for now and the recovery
April 2020 #1: COVID-19 and the Australian labour market: The immediate impact (Revised version)
March 2020: Hard times for the young in Australia's labour market
February 2020: Employment is growing fast, so why isn't the rate of unemployment falling more?
January 2020: Is it time to say goodbye to the rate of unemployment?
December 2019: The three S's of the Australian labour market post-GFC
November 2019: Employment in agriculture (forestry and fishing): A brief overview
July 1019: Can the unemployment rate help to predict recessions in Australia?
June 2019: What we missed while we looked away - The growth of long-term unemployment in Australia
April 2019: The long-run story of labour supply and labour demand in Australia
March 2019: How did the mining boom affect the labour share of income in Australia?
February 2019: Labour force participation and country of birth
January 2019: The Australian labour market: A brief retrospective
June 2018: Has declining union density contributed to growing earnings inequality in Australia?
February 2018: Australia and the US: A tale of two labour markets
September 2017: The changing demographics of work hours in Australia, 1993-2017
August 2017: Inequality in Australia since the early 1980s: A thumbnail sketch
April 2017: The distribution of work hours amongst the population in Australia
March 2017: Worker retrenchment in Australia - New and old perspectives
February 2017: Employment in Australia in 2016 - What happened and how much can we learn from it?
October 2016: NEET among young Australians - Is it increasing?
July 2016: A brief review of US studies of the effect of the minimum wage on employment
June 2016: Labour productivity in manufacturing industry in Australia, 1991 to 2015
April 2016: How has the volume of work affected GDP per capita in Australia?
March 2016: What has caused the growth of under-employment of labour in Australia?
February 2016: Where did Australia's employment growth in 2015 come from?
August 2015: Is Australia's rate of unemployment surprisingly low?
March 2015:A long run perspective on Closing the employment Gap
February 2015: The Australian labour market: The more things change...
December 2014: Closing the gender participation gap: Will Australia meet the G20 objective?
November 2014: The long and slowing road to gender pay equity
September 2014: The (labour market) times they are a changing...Not
July 2014: Growing apart - Earnings inequality in Australia from 1975 to 2013
May 2014: The influence of mining on labour productivity - We may be doing worse than we think
December 2013: The recent reversal in Australia’s LFPR: What is happening? (Revised version)
November 2013: Australia’s recent unemployment experience: It’s all about growth
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