Income Growth and Earnings Variations in New Zealand, 1998-2004 (WP 05/11)

Acknowledgements

We thank Bob Buckle, Simon Chapple, Sylvia Dixon, Roger Hurnard, Dave Maré, John Scott, Steve Stillman, Peter Wilson and seminar participants at Motu’s Understanding Adjustment and Inequality workshop and at the Treasury for helpful comments and discussions.  Access to the data used in this study was provided by Statistics New Zealand under conditions designed to give effect to the security and confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act 1975.  Any views expressed are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not purport to represent those of the Treasury or Statistics New Zealand.

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