This paper provides descriptive analysis of regional economic resilience in New Zealand during the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus on the resilience of regional labour markets, and complement this with analysis of regional labour reallocation, two regional case studies, and discussion of longer-term drivers of change in the regions and their...

This study compares the relative performance of New Zealand’s firms to those economies using novel cross-country microdata from CompNet. The authors present stylised facts for New Zealand relative to the economies of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Sweden based on average productivity levels, as well as benchmarking laggard, median and frontier firms.

This paper uses linked employee-employer data to examine the frequency with which workers change jobs in New Zealand, wage premiums associated with these job transitions, and the impact of house prices on worker mobility.

This paper uses census data to document and analyse the changing nature of jobs in regional New Zealand between 1976 and 2013.

This report shows New Zealand’s productivity performance at the level of the total economy, sectors, and individual industries. It illustrates trends in New Zealand’s productivity performance through time and compared to other OECD countries. It presents figures on business dynamics and the use of inputs such as labour and capital.