Whether or not the decline in the unemployment rate in September to the RBA’s estimate of the natural rate of 5.0% prompts the Bank to raise interest rates sooner depends on what happens to wage growth. Our view is that 5.0% is not the magic number and that the unemployment rate may need to fall closer to 4.0% to trigger a decent rise in wage growth.
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