Australia Labour Market (May)

While the unemployment rate edged down in May, the underutilisation rate held steady suggesting that there is still plenty of slack in the labour market. And in his speech yesterday, Governor Philip Lowe suggested the RBA is increasingly focusing on overall slack and not just the unemployment rate.

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