Why reducing unemployment should have been a focus for NZ's well-being budget
- Written by Simon Chapple, Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand's unemployment rate is better than the OECD average of 5.2%, but 12 OECD countries have lower rates. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND
In its much awaited first well-being budget, New Zealand’s coalition government missed a major trick in not making unemployment one of their central well-being priorities.
As of March 2019, New...
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