3 blog posts found
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MEI Special Topic: Adjusting for level shifts in labour market data
Posted: 30 Aug 2017Topic: Employment, Households, Labour force, Productivity, Statistics, Time series models, UnemploymentThis Special Topic uses estimates to re-estimate recent trends in employment growth, hours worked and labour productivity (GDP per hour worked). Statistics New Zealand updated the design of the... -
Taking age into account
Posted: 18 Apr 2017Topic: Consumption, Cost of living, Fiscal policy, Households, Income, National accounts, Older people, Savings, Standard of living, Time series models, WealthAuthor:I sometimes wonder if my two kids, born in the late-1980s, will be part of a generation that won't have the economic resources, income and assets, in their middle age as my generation had. There is... -
Are today's young people super savers or splurging spenders?
Posted: 19 Jul 2016Topic: Consumption, Econometric modelling, Households, Income, Older people, Pay, Retirement, Savings, Superannuation, Time series models, YouthAuthor:It's commonplace to worry about the financial habits of today's young people, particularly about whether they save as much as they "should". But we actually have had very little information about the...