On Monday Statistics New Zealand released a report on under-employment rates for 2017.[1] For clarity, the department now measures three distinct ‘under-engaged’ concepts in relation
On 1 April the changes to the minimum wage came into effect, raising the adult minimum wage rate by 75 cents per hour to $16.50.
In the last two weeks The Treasury has released a new Statement of Intent (SoI), and a series of discussion papers on ‘Higher Living Standards’.
Quarterly Labour Market Scorecard – December 2017 Last Wednesday the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment released their Labour Market Scorecard for the quarter ending 31
Māori in the Labour Market ReportOn Monday the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment released a report entitled Māori in the Labour Market – Monitoring
Household Labour Force Survey – Data Released On Wednesday Statistics New Zealand released the Household Labour Force Survey results for the quarter to the end
Benefit Fact Sheets – December 2017 Data Released The Ministry of Social Development has released Benefit Fact Sheets for the quarter to 31 December 2017.
Policy Observation: Targeted Programmes versus Generic Support This week’s edition of Pānui presents the newly released quarterly socio-economic data on Māori welfare rates, employment/unemployment levels,
Parliament resumed for the calendar year this week. Some items of note were: On Wednesday the Child Poverty Reduction Bill was introduced to Parliament (see
The Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has published research it has commissioned on low pay. The research was undertaken by Auckland University of
