Economics New Zealand

"NZ slumps to worst ever competitiveness ranking" , the NBR reported on Thursday about the latest results from the annual competi...

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...

For everyone in the competition and regulation game, you have to come along to the Competition Policy Institute of New Zealand annual worksh...

We may only be a small economy on the edge of the world, but - at least in the fields of competition and regulation - we can end up wrestlin...

It’s generally best, in fiscal and monetary policy, to make your plans clear and stick to them: Finance Ministers and central bank governors...

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...

We've been lucky, over the past year, to see two top-notch, data-heavy analyses of the gender pay gap appear in New Zealand. One, from M...