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FactCheck: Has the job market got so bad that 'people have stopped looking for work'?

  • Written by Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University

No wonder, when you have a participation rate that’s in free fall. Last month there was a fall by 0.2%, another 0.2%, it is now at 64.5%. What that indicates is that people have stopped looking for work. – Shadow minister for employment and workplace relations, Brendan O'Connor, doorstop interview, October 20, 2016.

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