"We ignore people who've dropped out of the labour force — to be classified as unemployed, you actually need to have looked for work in the survey period," he said.
"There's people who've given up looking for work, which we call discouraged workers or the hidden unemployed, who aren't counted in the figures." Associate Professor Dockery said measures used by the ABS to survey the labour market had remained the same since 1978, which made comparisons over time easy but seldom told the whole story.
"There's no way you can actually say exactly how many people are employed and unemployed, there's a lot of movement in between them.", he said ABS survey measures aligned with the International Labour Organisation's standards and provided an internationally relevant snapshot of Australia's workforce.
"To say that it's not a good measure, in my view, it's a bit like someone saying 'well, I don't think Celsius is a good measure of temperature because I think it's hotter than that'."
Of course... thats what the push to only offer casual positions was designed to do...oh and dont offer penalty rates either...theyre lucky to have a job right? Just keep voting Liberal...this is the future.
Have you just worked this out? Ffs.
theirs 5.200(5.2%) per 100,000 unemployed seeking employment and 8.400(8.4%) per 100,000 underemployed with 12.700(12.7%) total per 100,000 employed that..... ISNT RAZOR THIN where the FCK did you guys learn fractions? auspol AusVotes2019 ausvotes LNPfail PaladinAffair
Yes, anyone can juggle jobless figures.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
bsadams25 YESSSSSS! and all those on 0hrs and 'permanent casual' - which should be fucking outlawed
1. If Adani are successful in getting 'zero hour contracts' approved under employment will blow out even further 2. Do these figures show that potentially there is 31% underemployment? (Impossible to guess how many are actually looking for more hours)
The statistical answer to this depends on the aggregate size of those working 1 hr as a a conponent of the total LF aggregate.
Talk about people overworking with long hours should only be done in context of how many people are paid for those extra hours of work. I know many in health care work extra time with no additional payment.
Short answer, yes.
If the official unemployment rate is stated as 5%, tripple it and you will get a better idea of those working less than a 40 hrs week.
they need a min 15 hours/wk to make a living 1hr/week is nothing It is meaningless
Yes, of course!
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