Ross Gittins Have you heard that most of the jobs being created in the economy these days are part-time? No? Good. Yes, you have? Sorry, your info’s out of date.
It was true last year, but not this year. As this week’s figures for the labour force from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed, of the 176,000 additional jobs created in the first six months of this year, 93 per cent were full-time.
That, BTW, was an exceptionally rapid annualised rate of growth of 2.9 per cent. Doesn’t sound like the economy’s dead yet.Admittedly, it was a very different story last […]
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