Supplementary stats reveal true employment health
Margin Call: Simon Pannett looks at what all the labour market stats tell us.
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The unemployment rate is one of the economy’s more familiar and useful vital signs.
But when it was reported last week in New Zealand as falling from 4.2% in the first quarter to a befuddling 4.0% in the second quarter, some commentators lashed out a beleaguered Statistics New Zealand,
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Simon Pannett
Tue, 11 Aug 2020
Tue, 11 Aug 2020
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Supplementary stats reveal true employment health
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