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Many commentators have written about movements in the Participation Rate (PR) and the impact this has on unemployment rates; if participation increases then any decline in the unemployment rate is harder to achieve with more people entering the labour force (and vice versa). The discussion is certainly a valid one, but …read more
Pete spoke to John MacKenzie on radio 4CA this morning about the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Jobseeker Trend data, unemployment rates and the improving employment landscape in Cairns. You can hear it below….
The ABS release of their original regional labour force data allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Regional Employment Trend data for Nov. This series, derived from the unadjusted original ABS data, provides a more timely insight into the regional data than the oft-quoted annual averages. In the …read more
The original ABS regional labour force data for Oct released this morning allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Trend data. Doing so makes it clear that, while the State as a whole is doing poorly (see here for commentary from last week), the regions are outscoring Greater …read more
The ABS release of their original regional labour force September data allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Regional Employment Trends for Queensland; and they show us a positive picture for Cairns. The national and state-wide data released last week (see commentary here) saw the headline unemployment rates …read more
The updated Conus/CBC Staff Selection Regional Employment Trend data for August shows the Trend unemployment rate in Cairns stable at 6.3% with the addition of 1,700 to Trend employment. All of those extra positions came in the full-time sector with part-time employment falling 100. A strong increase in Trend participation …read more
Following on from an article in today’s Cairns Post Pete spoke to John MacKenzie on radio 4CA this morning about the latest Conus/CBC Staff Selection Employment Trend data and the recent Conus Industry Employment Trend. You can hear the segment below…
Today saw the release of the ABS original regional employment data. As always, we prefer to focus on this data through the lens of the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Employment Trend. When doing so we see a Tale of Two Cities in the North of the state. Cairns once again sees …read more
The regional employment data for April from the ABS needs to be seen through the lens of the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Employment Trend to make much sense of. What this shows us is the picture in Cairns continues to deteriorate with Trend employment having fallen for 9 consecutive months. Trend …read more
Today saw the release of the Feb monthly Regional Labour Force and the quarterly regional Industry employment data. Both data-sets are best seen through the lens of the Conus Trend series, so we shall start with the monthly data. Employment growth across QLD remains strong at 4.7% y/y (see here …read more
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