wage growth

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Vital Signs: Unemployment steady but needs to lower to lift wages

18 Feb 2022

A tighter labour market than in the past is now needed to drive real wages growth.

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Vital Signs: Chill, this week's news on wages points to anything but hyperinflation

19 Nov 2021

True wages growth, and true price growth, is probably less than the official figures suggest – meaning there’s no need for alarm about inflation in Australia.

Vital Signs: 4.6 per cent unemployment rate hints at what's possible, but it's not the real thing

20 Aug 2021

The unemployment decline isn’t as impressive as it first appears, and wages growth remains sluggish.

Vital Signs: Why has growth slowed globally? It has something to do with technology

18 Jun 2021

To drive living standards upward we need new technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.

Vital Signs: Amazon has lifted its wages, but the implications aren't as good as you might think

12 Oct 2018

Australia's unemployment rate may have to fall much more before we see any wages growth.

Vital Signs: poor wage growth means interest rates could be low for a long time

15 Jun 2018

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe has effectively ruled out an interest rate rise until wage growth tops 3%.

Vital Signs: Australia’s growth at a geological pace

06 Apr 2018

Low inflation and painful wage growth mean the Reserve Bank has extended its freeze on interest rates for an almost unprecedented 18th straight meeting.

Vital Signs: It will take more than asking for a pay rise to fix wages problem

23 Jun 2017

For a whole lot of workers in Australia, cutting a better pay deal is very hard, writes Richard Holden.