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Unemployment remains low but wage increases trail inflation

There has been a big reduction in the number of unemployed people compared with a year earlier.

Brent Edwards Wed, 02 Feb 2022

The unemployment rate was just 3.2% in the three months to the end of December, barely changed from the previous quarter.

In the September quarter the unemployment rate had been 3.3%.The new figure is a record low in the Household Labour Force Survey which started in 1986.

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Brent Edwards Wed, 02 Feb 2022
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