Posts Tagged ‘ABS’
Workers more loyal than ever (and other surprises about job tenure and mobility)
Three of the most written-about themes in the Australian labour market over the past few years have been the skills shortage (ie we can’t find enough of the right staff), the booming mining and resources sector (ie sucking workers out of other sectors) and the impact of Gen Y in the workforce (ie what…
Read MoreContract, temporary, casual: The workforce of tomorrow?
In my preparation for chairing the ATC Contingent Workforce: The New Perm* conference next week in Sydney, I have been reviewing the most recent media reports and research on the non-permanent workforce and it’s been a fascinating exercise. As if on cue, ERE.net ran a story on 29 August by John Zappe, headlined Experts Predict:…
Read MoreNew Zealand migration: Across the Tasman they still come
Is Australia in danger of being overrun by a tidal wave of New Zealanders? Recent data from both Statistics New Zealand and the ABS would indicate that Australia appears to be the pot of gold shining brightly at the end of the rainbow that hovers over the Tasman Sea. Consider: The net…
Read MoreFifteen things about the Australian labour market you probably didn’t know: 2012 update
Each year the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) releases a variety of reports that provide an overview of the state of the labour market. One of the most comprehensive, and interesting, of these reports is their annual Australian Jobs report. Here are my fifteen random extracts from that report: 1.…
Read MoreOur ageing population and workforce: The role of recruiters
You probably missed it but earlier in the month Age Discrimination Commissioner, Susan Ryan presented the Federal government with a paper calling for an overhaul of state and commonwealth laws to protect older workers against structural discrimination that stops them working past retirement. The report, Working Past Our 60s: Reforming Laws…
Read MoreEconomy still going strong, despite what the media tell you
You might be wondering how the economy can be in such good shape, despite all the media stories to the contrary. And the economy certainly is in good shape. The latest ABS figures indicate that in the first five months of 2012 the Australian labour market added a total of 116,000 new…
Read MoreA university education: overrated and underpaid?
Last week Suncorp Bank released its May 2012 Wages Report. This report is a fascinating analysis of Australian average weekly earnings by industry, gender and state and territory. The data is drawn from official Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports (specifically 6291.0.55.003 – Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly, Feb 2012 and 6302.0 Average Weekly…
Read MoreEmployment in Australia: Don’t generalise
Last week the ABS released its job vacancy data which gave a picture of what’s changed state-by-state in the past twelve months with respect to what we might loosely called the ‘candidate shortage’, or more specifically the ratio of unemployed job seekers to vacant positions. Here’s the data, with the comparative period of twelve…
Read MoreAustralian employment – still going strong (despite what you might read)
You would think the economic sky was about to fall in if you only read the front page of the daily newspapers and watched the free-to-air news. All the doom and gloom about job losses surely must mean the economy is collapsing. Err, no. Embarrassingly for the popular press, the official jobs data,…
Read MoreGuess which state has added the most jobs in Australia?
Western Australia gains more than its fair share of publicity whenever skills shortages are mentioned. As I wrote about last week in InSight #190, the WA Employment Minister has been on a jobs road show in Ireland and the UK, heavily promoting the vast numbers of new workers that the WA economy, fuelled by the…
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