This paper discusses the range of unemployment and employment statistics in New Zealand within the context of the various surveys producing them, to provide a better informed understanding of their use.

This guide provides a brief overview of unemployment, an introduction to some of the key concepts and terminology, and lists some relevant data sources. This is one in a series of Quick Guides related to labour statistics, designed to provide a basic understanding of Australian labour market data. Other guides include labour force, employment and...

This guide provides a brief overview of youth unemployment, an introduction to some of the key concepts and terminology used, and lists some relevant data sources. This is one in a series of Quick Guides related to labour statistics, designed to provide a basic understanding of the Australian labour market data. Other guides include labour...

Following the global financial crisis, the incumbent Labor government introduced policies that reduced the job search requirements for people on unemployment benefits. As a result, there are now around 350,000 people receiving unemployment benefits who are classified as ‘non-jobseekers’, meaning that they are not required to look for work. People on welfare who are not...

This paper is a reference tool for those needing to locate specific changes in Australian social security and place them in their chronological context. This chronology is one of several produced by the Parliamentary Library dealing with the history of social security payments. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), the Department of...