Australia’s economy is a productivity desert
Alex Joiner, chief economist at IFM Investors, has published a series of charts illustrating the explosive growth in non-market (government-aligned) employment, which has pulled down the nation’s productivity.
The following chart shows that since Q1 2023, 658,071 jobs have been added in the non-market sector versus only 135,880 jobs in the market sector.
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