SAUL ESLAKE

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SAUL ESLAKE

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The effective rate of unemployment


Labour Market, The Australian Economy | 11th August 2021

A submission to the Senate Select Committee on Job Security, examining the difference between the unemployment rate as published (in accordance with long-standing international statistical conventions) by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and alternative measures which take account of some of the ways in which Covid-19 (and the restrictions imposed in response to it) have affected employment and labour force participation.

2021-08-10 The effective rate of unemployment