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Slow wage growth to persist despite strong job growth

While the recent run of positive news on the health of the Australian labour market is certainly encouraging, it doesn’t alter the bigger picture that there is still plenty of spare capacity. This will prevent a sustained pick-up in wage growth from occurring for some time yet.

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