Introduction: the pursuit of full employment; macro economic perspectives

Abstract

The papers in this symposium are derived from papers presented to the most recent of 2 conferences on labour, employment and work organised by Peter Brosnan and Phillip Morrison of Victoria University. Their very considerable effort and initiative brought together a wide range of persons active in research into aspects of employment and unemployment in New Zealand. At the second conference. in September 1985, papers were presented on topics ranging from analysis to demographic trends, through detailed analysis of employment generation at rhe enterprise level to policy analysis and consideration of the social and personal consequences of unemployment. The conference provided an opportunity for researchers to learn something of what is going on in other disciplines beside their own. In this symposium we are pleased to be able to make 5 of the conference papers available to a wider audience.