Why is unemployment in Australia at 5.3% if their minimum wage is $16.43 in USD?

[mercury14]

I thought raising the minimum wage caused high unemployment.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I thought raising the minimum wage caused high unemployment.

Australia is below the equator. The excessive gravitational pull below the equator pulls the unemployment rate down.

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Plus, they don't have a negar prime minister
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[Sean Renaud]

Trust, yet verify.

I assume you have citation of some sort?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Australia is below the equator. The excessive gravitational pull below the equator pulls the unemployment rate down.

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Plus, they don't have a negar prime minister
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Is that how gravity works? I always find it confusing that we're walking on a really big ball and I wonder if I could start running fast enough to spin all the rest of you fucks off it like an enormous log.

 

[imalickin]

Uh, let's see...

fewer people?

less illegal aliens?

fewer stupid politicians?

stronger work ethic?

...to mention a few.

 

[koalabear]

On 26 July 2013 at 05:27:20 AM (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be:

23,127,826

313.9 million (2012)
United States of America, Population

 

[islandman]

Uh, let's see...

fewer people?

less illegal aliens?

fewer stupid politicians?

stronger work ethic?

...to mention a few.

It's back to remedial math for you.

 

[imalickin]

It's back to remedial math for you.

Well at least I don't believe that 2 + 2 = 5 like you do.

 

[islandman]

Well at least I don't believe that 2 + 2 = 5 like you do.

Are we using base 10 numbers or not?

 

[knot_sweet]

I thought raising the minimum wage caused high unemployment.

Those figures are fudged

Anyone who is unemployed but a student doesn't count.

Anyone unemployed but on some type of disability payment doesn't count.

And if you're holding down a casual, shift job, and only get two shifts a week, it doesn't count.

And that minimum wage is the adult award rate. If you're 16 or under the rate is $6.03, scaling up yearly until you reach the adult age (over 21, which is stupid cos in every other area, you're an adult at 18 here)

 

[imalickin]

Those figures are fudged

Anyone who is unemployed but a student doesn't count.

Anyone unemployed but on some type of disability payment doesn't count.

And if you're holding down a casual, shift job, and only get two shifts a week, it doesn't count.

And that minimum wage is the adult award rate. If you're 16 or under the rate is $6.03, scaling up yearly until you reach the adult age (over 21, which is stupid cos in every other area, you're an adult at 18 here)

More proof that Merc doesn't know what he's talking about. No news to anyone really.

Even if you say it enough times, it still isn't true.

 

[imalickin]

Are we using base 10 numbers or not?

As if you can do math in any other base, without google.

 

[islandman]

As if you can do math in any other base, without google.

The world is round.

 

[koalabear]

I thought raising the minimum wage caused high unemployment.

Some day you will earn more than minimum wage StinkyMORON, hang in there.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Are we using base 10 numbers or not?

Wouldn't matter.

There's no base number system in which that equation would be correct.

 

[islandman]

Wouldn't matter.

There's no base number system in which that equation would be correct.

Hush.

He doesn't know that.

 

[Busybody]

I thought raising the minimum wage caused high unemployment.

oil and minerals

you DEMENTED PIG!

 

[Busybody]

same reason TX is doing well



that's why Obama wants to CLOSE IT OFF

he would rather have peeps on WELFARE

 

[mercury14]

Australia unemployment rate. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/unemployment-rate

Australia minimum wage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_law#Historical_rates


Unemployment according to that source is 5.7%

 

[mercury14]

fewer people?

Doesn't matter.

less illegal aliens?

Australia has an illegal alien problem that roughly equals America's. Except theirs would make you shit your conservative panties since it involves a ton of illegal Muslims.

fewer stupid politicians?

Ever been to Queensland?

stronger work ethic?

No.

 

[knot_sweet]

Did you miss the bit that says people actively looking for work are counted as employed??

In what way does looking for work actually count as having a job?

 

[Sean]

stronger work ethic?

.

Aussies? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

 

[mercury14]

Those figures are fudged

Anyone who is unemployed but a student doesn't count.

Same as in US figures.

Anyone unemployed but on some type of disability payment doesn't count.

Same as in US figures.

And if you're holding down a casual, shift job, and only get two shifts a week, it doesn't count.

Same as in US figures.

And that minimum wage is the adult award rate. If you're 16 or under the rate is $6.03, scaling up yearly until you reach the adult age (over 21, which is stupid cos in every other area, you're an adult at 18 here)

Basically the same as in the US because we can pay teenagers less as well.

 

[knot_sweet]

Our unemployment rate says there is 5.4% of the population physically and legally capable of working, aren't studying ....

AND DON'T WANT TO WORK

How is that good?

 

[mercury14]

And that minimum wage is the adult award rate. If you're 16 or under the rate is $6.03, scaling up yearly until you reach the adult age (over 21, which is stupid cos in every other area, you're an adult at 18 here)

Good point I guess.



Oh, no wait. That's utter bullshit. Once Australian kids turn 17 they make more than US minimum wage, $7.74 per hour. At age 20 your minimum wage is more than twice ours at $16.00/hr.

(aussie dollars are almost the same as US dollars ~94 US cents)