Australia Labour Market (Mar.)

The huge leap in employment in March looks suspicious to us and we think the stagnation in the unemployment rate at a 14-month high of 5.9% is a better signal of the state of the labour market. That rate is close to the 6% plus mark that we think would really worry the RBA.

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