Employment Change in Manufacturing Australia vs New Zealand 1987-1992

Authors

  • Richard Willis Victoria University of Wellington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/lew.v0i0.884

Abstract

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.

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Author Biography

Richard Willis, Victoria University of Wellington

Senior lecturer in the Department of Geography

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Published

1992-11-12

Issue

1992: Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand

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