Swelling workforce sees jobs and jobless numbers surge
Record labour force numbers push unemployment up, despite growing employment.
Rob Hosking
Wed, 04 Feb 2015
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Surging net migration saw both employment and unemployment numbers jump in the final months of 2014.
Labour participation is at an all time record, at 69.7% of the population, according to the latest household labour force survey released this morning by Statistics New Zealand. (See graph
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Rob Hosking
Wed, 04 Feb 2015
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