Full-time Jobs are not Coming Back in Australia
Data: ABS - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly (6291.0.55.003)
According to the ABS, “The monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS) provides information about the labour market activity of Australia’s resident civilian population aged 15 years and over. The LFS is designed to primarily provide estimates of employment and unemployment for the whole of Australia and, secondarily, for each state and territory.”
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National Trends
This is a short post to share a single plot, but an important one.
The plot shows the changes in the number of persons employed in Australia in May and August 2020, compared to Feb 2020. You can read the number of people employed from the y-axis and the change is presented as a number on each line.
If you look closely, you can see that almost all the recovery in employment in August 2020 has occured in the part-time jobs and there is no major change across both lines representing the full-time employment for men and women. This does not mean that there has been no increase in full-time jobs, however, the net increase seems to be close to zero.