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Vital Signs: flat employment remains worrying for Australia

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Australia
imageEmployment growth remains flat, despite hopes for improvement.Daniel Oines/Flickr, CC BY

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

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