… at least lets hope so right Unemployment rate rose to 6.8%, and the employment rate is at its lowest level since June 2003. Further (relative to seasonal) weakness in part-time employment was the kicker here – which is why total hours worked (the size of the labour input in a sense) still rose. Relative …
Category Archive: New Zealand Economics
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Feb 01 2011
Savings working group report: Media release, first impression
I am busy with labour market data (and the EPL transfer window), so you won’t get a good read on the report from me until later tonight, or even tomorrow. However, I was happy with the media release in the most part. Especially the discussion of tax bias toward housing (and away from interest bearing …
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Jan 31 2011
Private sector fails to take on losers …
Interesting series of quotes on the disaster that was think big. The years of media coverage have not been kind to the “think big” projects of the early 1980s – speculated to have cost taxpayers about $7 billion. … “It’s a peculiarity of New Zealand that both our main parties have been interventionist and it …
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Jan 28 2011
More on commodity booms
After today’s discussion on food prices, it was interesting to see a speech out of the Reserve Bank. The speech was painting risks – so stating things that could occur that were both positive and negative (risks are not just negative things when your current forecasts “balance” risks). It was good, it raised issues, and …
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Jan 28 2011
Pricey food and New Zealand: Net and distributional issues
I have been crawling closer to writing about food prices for a while. Originally I was going to only write about distributional issues, but now I’m going to write a little more. A report released by NZIER yesterday afternoon suggested that New Zealand would be worse off, as a whole, if the relative price of …
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Jan 27 2011
Saving and consumers: A note
There has been a lot of talk about savings and rebalancing. I’m not going to touch this stuff in much detail until the Savings Working Group releases their final report. But in any case, I do need to say a little something now. I didn’t like the interim report from the savings group (but remain …
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