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Supplementary stats reveal true employment health

Margin Call: Simon Pannett looks at what all the labour market stats tell us.

Simon Pannett
Tue, 11 Aug 2020

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
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