7 blog posts found
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MEI Special Topic: Recent Trends in New Zealand’s Productivity
Posted: 2 Jul 2019Productivity measures how efficiently production inputs, such as labour and capital, are used in an economy to produce outputs, or goods or services. Productivity growth is a key driver of incomes... -
MEI Special Topic: 2018 HYEFU Business Talks
Posted: 25 Jan 2019Topic: Agriculture, Business cycles, Economic forecasting, Government regulation, Industry, Infrastructure, Labour forceDuring the final week of October and early November, officials from the Treasury met with a range of businesses and organisations around the country to discuss the outlook for the economy. The... -
So you want to be more resilient
Posted: 9 Aug 2018Topic: Biosecurity, Cyber security, Education, Emergency management, Environment, Health, Human capital, Infrastructure, Insurance, Labour force, Living standards framework, Migration, Natural capital, Natural resources, Physical/financial capital, Resilience, Risk management, Skilled workers, Social capital, TradeAuthor:This article is one of a series on the Treasury's Living Standards Framework Get a group of risk practitioners together, and not one of them would contest the statement that we need to be more... -
Wellbeing, economics and the long view - reflections on recent work at the OECD
Posted: 6 Aug 2018Topic: Economic conditions, Economics, Globalisation, Labour force, Living standards framework, Organisations, Performance measurement, Productivity, Standard of living, Technological change, Trade, WellbeingAuthor:The Treasury has a small off-shore presence to provide a New Zealand voice in global economic fora and to keep an eye on emerging trends overseas. In this edition of Staff Insights our OECD Economic... -
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... -
MEI Special Topic: March 2017 Business Talks
Posted: 4 Apr 2017Topic: Competition (business), Consumption, Economic conditions, Industry, Investment, Labour force, Pay, Prices, Primary industry, Regional development, Service industriesIn the second week of March, Treasury officials met with around 20 businesses in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to discuss the outlook for the economy. The information gathered will be used to... -
MEI Special Topic: Implications of the Revised Household Labour Force Survey for the Economic Outlook
Posted: 3 Aug 2016Statistics New Zealand has redeveloped the Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS), the official source of data on employment and unemployment. The revisions bring New Zealand data into line with the...