Immigration reset backlash: Kiwis not willing to do some jobs, say bosses
19 May, 2021 04:00 AM
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Economic Development Minister Stuart Nash said the new border exceptions would allow more than 200 wealthy international investors to come to New Zealand over the next 12 months. Video / Mark Mitchell
Economic Development Minister Stuart Nash said the new border exceptions would allow more than 200 wealthy international investors to come to New Zealand over the next 12 months. Video / Mark Mitchell
Plans to reduce the country s reliance on low-skilled migrant workers have been met with backlash by industry heavyweights who say Kiwis aren t interested in doing the work.
Bonnie Flaws05:00, May 13 2021
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Fabio Da Silva, an operations manager for five Culverden dairy farms has been stuck in Japan since leaving for a 10-day skiing trip just before the New Zealand border was closed.
Fabio Da Silva was running five Canterbury dairy farms and was on a work-to-residency track when an ill-timed skiing holiday to Japan, just before the border closed, cut that short. He was still there, after his employer Tim Delaney had his sixth visa application for Da Silva turned down on what his immigration adviser said was a technicality. The application to renew his visa was meant to be made by August, but overseas processing was closed and he could not apply.
Press Release – Auckland University of Technology New Zealand decision makers now have access to more frequent unemployment statistics thanks to a new tool. The Unemployment Rate Nowcast model, called UR-NOW, predicts the unemployment rate each month, published here , to supplement the official quarterly …
New Zealand decision makers now have access to more frequent unemployment statistics thanks to a new tool.
The Unemployment Rate – Nowcast model, called UR-NOW, predicts the unemployment rate each month, published here, to supplement the official quarterly figures.
AUT Professor Tim Maloney, also Chief Economist at the Ministry for Social Development, and Principal Advisor David Rea at the Ministry of Social Development, made the tool and described its development in a working paper.
Friday, 7 May 2021, 6:55 am
New Zealand decision makers now have access to more
frequent unemployment statistics thanks to a new
tool.
The Unemployment Rate – Nowcast model, called
UR-NOW, predicts the unemployment rate each month, published
here, to supplement the official quarterly
figures.
AUT Professor Tim Maloney, also Chief
Economist at the Ministry for Social Development, and
Principal Advisor David Rea at the Ministry of Social
Development, made the tool and described its development in
a working
paper.
The official unemployment rate is based on
Stats NZ’s Household Labour Force Survey over a
three-month period, so there is a natural delay of up to