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Treasurer Paul Keating budgeted a record $9.1 billion surplus for 1989–90, and Labor won the 1990 election, aided by the support of environmentalists. To court the green vote, environment minister Graham Richardson had placed restrictions on mining (notably uranium mining [5]) and logging which had a detrimental effect on already rising unemployment.
Unemployment rate (2021) [1] This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially ...
As we saw, under such policies an unemployment rate of 10 per cent was needed to bring wage claims down to their present state, one in which virtually no increases at all are taking place. [ 16 ] The official Australian unemployment rate did fall under the early Accord, reaching a minimum of 6% in 1990, but rapidly increased between 1990 and ...
The participation rate for 15- to 24-year-olds increased by 0.4 points to 70.7% while the unemployment rate for this group decreased by 0.1 points to 9.1%. [105] According to the ABS, in January 2024, the underemployment rate remained steady at 6.0%, while the underutilisation rate (the unemployed plus the under-employed) [ 106 ] decreased by 0 ...
Percent change in unemployment rate from February 2020 to February 2021: +77.14% See: Industries Set To Bounce Back in 2021 By this comparison, the economy still has a lot of work to do to get ...
In April 2010, the US unemployment rate was 9.9%, but the government's broader U-6 unemployment rate was 17.1%. [176] In April 2012, the unemployment rate was 4.6% in Japan. [177] In a 2012 story, the Financial Post reported, "Nearly 75 million youth are unemployed around the world, an increase of more than 4 million since 2007. In the European ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last month that the national August 2020 unemployment rate was 8.4%. More recently, on Wednesday, September 30, the BLS released metro area ...
On 12 December 1983, Australia floated the Australian dollar, with the exchange rate reflecting the balance of payments and other market drivers. Immediately after 1945 Australia continued to be governed by the ALP, which adopted a policy of reconstruction based on the principles of "nationalisation and rationalisation". [ 22 ]