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Speaking to a Senate committee yesterday, Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy admitted that the sharp reduction in foreign workers due to Australia’s closed international border will put upward pressure on wages:
Dr Kennedy… indicated that border closures and the loss of foreign workers to fill skills gaps might result in wages growing faster than the budget’s forecasts.
“Wage growth could respond more quickly to a fall in the unemployment rate if we see a mismatch in the skills employers are looking for and those looking for work,” Dr Kennedy said.
Secretary to the Australian Treasury, Dr Steven Kennedy, has said the super guarantee increase has come at the expense of wages growth in Budget forecasts.
By Reuters Staff
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VIENNA, May 31 (Reuters) - Austria’s debt issuance for 2021 will surpass last year’s record as it will have to sell more bonds to cover the larger-than-expected budget deficit due to coronavirus lockdowns, its treasury said on Monday.
In an update to its annual funding outlook, the Federal Financing Agency (OBFA), which refers to itself in English as the Austrian Treasury, increased its forecast for total issuance across all instruments to 65 billion-70 billion euros from the roughly 65 billion euros ($79 billion) announced in December.
“(Last year) it came out at 63 billion. This year we will definitely be above that. And now we have to see how things develop,” OBFA’s co-chief Markus Stix said in a telephone interview. The government has already said this year’s budget deficit will grow to around 8.4% of gross domestic product. ($1 = 0.8203 euros) (Reporting by Francois Murphy; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
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