Research Briefing
Australia’s unemployment hit 4.5% in September, the highest in nearly four years. As inflation stays elevated, the RBA faces pressure...
Research Briefing
Australia’s unemployment hit 4.5% in September, the highest in nearly four years. As inflation stays elevated, the RBA faces pressure...
Research Briefing
We believe the huge increase in foreign workers in Japan will prove unsustainable, despite the considerable labour shortages across various...
Research Briefing
After years of labour productivity stagnation, leaders are calling for urgent action to revive Australia productivity growth. The upcoming national...
Research Briefing
Australia’s productivity has stagnated due to weak business investment, declining dynamism, slower technological payoffs, and a meek appetite for economic reform.
Research Briefing
During the recently concluded three-day Dragon Boat Festival in China, domestic tourism spending reached CNY42.7bn ($5.9bn), with a total of...
Research Briefing
Higher unemployment among recent US graduates is driven by structural shifts in tech hiring and AI displacement. Labor force participation...
Research Briefing
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) kept its policy rate at 0.50% at Wednesday's meeting, as expected. Despite a marginally higher...
Research Briefing
The Bank of Japan raised the policy rate by 0.25ppts to 0.5% at Friday's meeting, as we expected. We maintain...
Research Briefing
We think that valid concerns about the quality of data from the UK's Labour Force Survey (LFS) make it virtually...