Open AccessAn Interpretation of New Zealand's Regional Employment Change by Means of Classic Shift-Share Analysis 1986-2001
Author(s) -
Sandra Baxendine,
Bill Cochrane,
Ian Pool,
Jacques Poot
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
labour, employment and work in new zealand
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2463-2600
DOI - 10.26686/lew.v0i0.1263
Subject(s) - restructuring , metropolitan area , shift share analysis , economic geography , economic restructuring , regional science , structural change , geography , demographic economics , interpretation (philosophy) , development economics , economics , economic growth , economy , macroeconomics , archaeology , finance , computer science , programming language
Over the last two decades New Zealand has undergone fundamental economic restructuring, and phases of slow and rapid growth, which have resulted in some dramatic changes in the regional economies. This paper focuses on changes in regional employment outcomes in terms of the impact of national trends on regions, sectoral composition within regions, structural change and local conditions. These changes are quantified by means of classic shift-share analysis. Regions are clustered based on the direction and relative importance of national and region-specific effects. The clustering highlights the chasm that has developed in New Zealand between metropolitan and other services-oriented regions vis-a-vis rural and peripheral regions.