FutureworkNZ blog

There’s a great new ad campaign running for Trade Me at the moment based on the slogan, ‘there’s som…

Two new Productivity Commission reports tell us that the New Zealand labour market is characterised …

How well does NZ support people who face job loss?  

I feel fortunate. In my working life – 3 ½ yea…

Online matchmaking has radically changed the way people search for love.

The converging roles of men and women are among the grandest advances in society and the economy in …

Why don’t people move as often as economists expect? 

Some regions in New Zealand have much higher …

The right job in the wrong place. For many, that’s the reality of job search in New Zealand’s less p…

I only know one economist joke. A plane carrying economists plummets towards the ground after its en…

career (v) move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.

Are fast rates of re-employment always a good thing? New Zealand’s incidence of long-term unemployme…