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Unemployment

GRAPH OF THE WEEK: Job data to show upturn

Labour market: will the jobs/hours worked gap close?(Source: Statistics NZ data)

Job market jitters continue

Unemployment is still up 0.5% on where it was a year ago, or up 10,000 to 163,000 people.

Jobless rate falls from 13-year high as Kiwis stop looking for work

The unemployment rate fell 0.4 of a percentage point to 6.9% in the September quarter, as the number of people leaving the workforce fell faster than jobs available.

Why unemployment could surprise us again

Data shows manufacturing 'crisis' claims are wrong

Graph One: Manufacturing sales (source: Statistics NZ data)

Official jobless rate overstates labour market woes

Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler

The Reserve Bank's latest forecast is more downbeat about the level of unemployment over the next two years, but is not convinced joblessness is at a 13-year high.