Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 14-Jul-16

The good news for the re-elected Turnbull Government is that unemployment fell 1.1% to 9.6% in June 2016 – although this is still well above the current ABS figure for May (5.7%). However, the rising levels of employment were led by an increase in part-time employment (3,951,000, up 208,000 from June 2015) while full-time employment was down 28,000 to 7,792,000. Increasing part-time employment leads directly to increases in under-employment – now at 8.3% (up 0.9% since May 2016). In June a total of 2.326 million Australians (17.9% of the workforce) were either unemployed or under-employed. The fall in unemployment in June almost evenly matched by rising levels of under-employment was observed in last year’s June unemployment estimates.

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