Economics New Zealand

The New Zealand Association of Economists runs a poster competition at each annual conference - a good idea, encouraging concision and cle...

Yesterday's Monetary Policy Statement went entirely as expected - no change to the Official Cash Rate (still 0.25%), no change to the L...

Yesterday I had a go at estimating what the drop in New Zealand GDP had been during the June quarter, when the lockdowns were in place. Mean...

The Productivity Commission 's been working on 'Technological change and the future of work'. Last month it came out with the se...

By far the best single way to get unemployment down is to keep up a good run of economic growth at a robust pace. Not only does the unemploy...

A small but select audience turned out last night for the latest Auckland LEANZ seminar, featuring Bill Rosenberg, the Congress of Trade Uni...

Our latest monetary policy targets agreement requires policy to "contribute to supporting maximum sustainable employment within the eco...

There's been something quite odd happening for quite a while. Employers are saying they are having a lot of difficulty finding staff, as...

As any number of recent headlines will tell you, there's a bunfight going on about a slump in business confidence and a rise in unemploy...

Last year the folks at Motu came up with a great piece of researc h which, among other things, showed that wage discrimination against wome...

In response to my post yesterday about unemployment by educational level , a reader who knows their way around Stats' Infoshare database...

A reader looked at the cyclical pattern of unemployment by ethnicity which I posted about the other day ( 'Unemployment doesn't stri...

I'd headed over to MBIE's website to see if that inquiry into petrol stations had come out yet - it hadn't - but by happy accid...

So we've tightened up our immigration settings, again. Opponents are saying it's fiddling at the margins. I hope the critics are rig...

Politicians everywhere spin the economic data, and the labour market data in particular. So it's no surprise that the Trump administrati...

On Monday I wondered about the sense of the government tightening up on migration inflows at a time when businesses appeared to be finding ...

The government has tapped the brakes on migration flows, for what commentators have assessed as essentially political reasons (see, for exam...

Our revamped Household Labour Force Survey now collects information on union membership and on types of employment agreement, which sounded ...