Open AccessEmployment Change in Manufacturing Australia vs New Zealand 1987-1992
Author(s) -
Richard Willis
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
labour, employment and work in new zealand
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2463-2600
DOI - 10.26686/lew.v0i0.884
Subject(s) - job loss , net migration rate , demographic economics , manufacturing , labour economics , business , operations management , economics , demography , economic growth , sociology , marketing , unemployment , population , population growth
It is clear that in New Zealand that most of the net job loss can be attributed to the decline in manufacturing employment. The release of the 1991 Business Activity Statistics showed that there was a total net job loss of 77,176 jobs between 1987 and 1992. Manufacturing contributed 60,649 or 78.6% of this net loss (Department of Statistics: 1992). In the light of this dramatic contraction of New Zealand's manufacturing employment in the last five years the purpose of this paper is to compare changes in manufacturing employment in the two countries against the different policy background and environments.