scholarly journals Work Arrangements in New Zealand: First Results from the Survey of Working Life

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Barnes ◽  
Sharon Boyd ◽  
Sophie Flynn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
First Results ◽  
Permanent Employees ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

Work arrangements in New Zealand have changed substantially in the last 30 years, leading to increased diversity in contracting arrangements, hours and times worked, and terms and conditions of employment. This paper describes the current work arrangements, employment conditions and job satisfaction levels of employed people in New Zealander from data collected in the Survey of Working Life. The survey was run as a supplement to the Household Labour Force Survey in the March 2008 quarter, to answer questions such as: 'How prevalent is casual work in New Zealand?', 'How many employed people work non-standard hours?’ and 'Who is most likely to experience stress or discrimination at work?’ The focus o f the data analysis is to identify workers with different types of employment relationships (for example, temporary versus permanent employees), and describe the demographic and job characteristics associated with these different employment relationships. Working-time patterns and conditions of employment are the other key topics examined in this paper. It is intended that this supplement be repeated every three years to monitor changes in employment conditions, work arrangements and job quality in New Zealand.

scholarly journals Self-Employment and Labour Market Transitions in New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyi Shao ◽  
Mallika Kelkar
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Labour Market Transitions ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Market Transitions

Self-employment in New Zealand has been trending up in the past two years, following subdued growth between 2000 and 2010. Self-employed people made up 11.3% of total employed in the year to March 2012 (251,800 workers), compared with 10.1% in the year to March 2010. Self-employment is defined in this paper as those people operating their own business without employees. The paper explores time series trends in self-employment, in particular across three post-recession periods. Characteristics of self-employed workers are also identified. This paper also investigates movements in and out of self-employment in order to understand the recent growth in this type of employment. The analysis uses longitudinal Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) data. The HLFS provides official measures of a range of labour market indicators, including the number of people employed, unemployed and not in the labour force.

scholarly journals Minimum Wage Workers in New Zealand: Who are they?

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Timmins
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Wage Rate ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Predominantly Female ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Related Occupation

The New Zealand minimum wage rate has recently experienced a sustained period of growth that looks set to continue under the current Labour-led government. Since 2002 the adult minimum wage rate has increased by 28% from $8 and hour to the current rate of $10.25. This rise in the minimum wage has outstripped average wages, which increased by 15% over the same period. This paper uses the New Zealand Household Labour Force Survey and its Income Supplement to identify minimum wage workers and describe their demographic and job characteristics. In particular, the paper examines changes in the characteristics of minimum wage workers between 2002 and 2005. Minimum wage workers, over this period, are relatively young (over a half are aged 16-25 years), predominantly female, working part-time and are likely to be employed in a Services and Sales related occupation and in the Retail and Hospitality industries. Between 2002 and 2005 there was a three-fold increase in the share of wage and salary workers identified as minimum wage workers. Minimum wage workers in 2005 were slightly older and more likely to be female, compared with 2002. In particular, the share of married females among minimum wage workers doubled and there was an increase in the share of minimum wage workers in the Health and Community Services industry sector.

scholarly journals The union and non-union wage differential in the New Zealand public service

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Goldie Feinberg-Danieli ◽  
Zsuzsanna Lonti
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Wage Differential ◽  
Union Wage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wage Bargaining ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

What do unions do? The major objective of unions is to improve the terms of conditions of employment for their members. At the same time, unions have a considerable impact on the employment conditions of not only their own members but non-unionised workers as well. One of the most important employment terms unions negotiate is wages. As a result, wage bargaining has been identified as a primary function of unions, and differences in wages between union and non-union members are considered an important measure of union power. In most countries this differential is called the ‘union/non-union’ wage differential. In New Zealand, however, there are employees who are union members but are not covered by collective agreements, contrary to the more common occurrence in other countries (e.g. the United States and Canada), where non-union members are often covered by collective agreements. Therefore, in New Zealand the differential should be more precisely called the ‘collective versus individual’ wage differential. In this article we focus on the raw ‘collective’ wage differential, but due to convention we still call it the ‘union’ wage differential.

scholarly journals New Zealand Income Survey and Other Sources of Income Data From Statistics New Zealand

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Archibald
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Income Data ◽  
Economic Survey ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Larger Sample

Many social scientists are familiar with the Household Economic Survey as a source of income data. However it is not the only source. The NZ Income Survey is run annually as a supplement to the June quarter Household Labour Force Survey. It provides a rich set of income data based on a much larger sample size. In this paper I will discuss the NZ Income Survey and compare it to some of the other SNZ sources of income data.

scholarly journals The social configuration of labour market divides: An analysis of Germany, Belgium and Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-223
Author(s):  
Nadja Doerflinger ◽  
Valeria Pulignano ◽  
Martin Lukac
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labour Market Segmentation ◽  
Micro Foundations ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

We analyse insecurity-based dividing lines and their social configurations in the German, Belgian and Italian labour markets in 2015, using latent class analysis applied to EU Labour Force Survey data. In contrast to the dual vision of ‘insider-outsider’ approaches, our findings illustrate the existence of five distinctive labour market groups or segments across countries with similar social configurations. We explain this through the social embeddedness of national regulatory systems which generate different degrees of inclusiveness for different groups of workers. This adds to ongoing debates on connecting micro- and macro-levels of analysis, as labour market segmentation as a macro-phenomenon is studied based on its micro-foundations (terms and conditions of employment relationships). We use the interlinkages between national regulatory systems and social categories to explain the findings.

scholarly journals Mothers in the New Zealand workforce

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Flynn ◽  
Magdalen Harris
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Employed Mothers ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Force Characteristics ◽  
Over Time

Motherhood is a significant factor in how women participate in paid work. Women are likely to restructure their work arrangements or withdraw from the labour market while caring for dependent children (OECD, 2011). However, women’s participation in the labour force has increased over time, in part due to more mothers remaining in and re-entering the labour market. The purpose of this paper is to look at the demographic and labour force characteristics of women in the prime parenting age group (those aged 25–49 years), in relation to their parent and partner statuses. Data from the Household Labour Force Survey and the Survey of Working Life are used to create a picture of these different groups of women over time, to identify the factors affecting a mother’s ability to participate in the labour market, and to understand how work arrangements and conditions for employed mothers differ from employed non-mothers’.

scholarly journals Minimum Wage Workers in New Zealand: Who are they?

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Timmins
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Wage Rate ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Predominantly Female ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Related Occupation

The New Zealand minimum wage rate has recently experienced a sustained period of growth that looks set to continue under the current Labour-led government. Since 2002 the adult minimum wage rate has increased by 28% from $8 and hour to the current rate of $10.25. This rise in the minimum wage has outstripped average wages, which increased by 15% over the same period. This paper uses the New Zealand Household Labour Force Survey and its Income Supplement to identify minimum wage workers and describe their demographic and job characteristics. In particular, the paper examines changes in the characteristics of minimum wage workers between 2002 and 2005. Minimum wage workers, over this period, are relatively young (over a half are aged 16-25 years), predominantly female, working part-time and are likely to be employed in a Services and Sales related occupation and in the Retail and Hospitality industries. Between 2002 and 2005 there was a three-fold increase in the share of wage and salary workers identified as minimum wage workers. Minimum wage workers in 2005 were slightly older and more likely to be female, compared with 2002. In particular, the share of married females among minimum wage workers doubled and there was an increase in the share of minimum wage workers in the Health and Community Services industry sector.

scholarly journals Exploring Occupational Mobility

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Spier
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Young People ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Unskilled Workers ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
One Year ◽  
Skill Shortages

This paper describes the results from an exploratory study examining whether Household Labour Force Survey panel data could be used to provide some insights into the level of occupational mobility in New Zealand. Identifying the extent to which people are leaving the occupation for which they have trained can improve our understanding of the contribution of occupational mobility to skill shortages. Overall, it was found that 7% of individuals in the sample appeared to change occupation over the course of a one year period. The groups that were found to be most likely to change occupations were young people and unskilled workers.

scholarly journals Labour Underutilisation in New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Flynn ◽  
Andrea Fromm
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Unmet Demand ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Made In

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a preliminary measure of labour underutilisation in New Zealand using data from the Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS). Underutilisation measures add value to the suite of labour market indicators already available from the HLFS. In particular, the underutilisation rate complements the unemployment rate by providing a broader picture of unmet demand for paid employment in New Zealand. The concept of underutilisation and the necessity to measure underutilisation is based on recommendations of an International Labour Organization (ILO) Working Group on Underutilisation made in 2008. The Working Group recommended that ‘... the statistical community should devote serious efforts to introduce, at a par with unemployment, a supplementary concept which measures the employment problem as experienced by individual workers.’ The development of underutilisation measures is also important to mirror changes in increasingly transitional labour markets and to enable analysis and evaluation of these changes.

scholarly journals Unemployment Duration: Evidence from the Household Labour Force Survey

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Grimmond
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Unemployment Duration ◽  
Market Dynamics ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Data Limitations ◽  
Household Labour

Research on labour market dynamics in New Zealand has been limited mainly due to data limitations. The introduction of the quaterly Houshold Labour Force Survey (HLFS) in December 1985 has greatly increased information on the New Zealand labour market. In this study we propose to test for a relationship between unemployment duration and the ability for individuals to leave unemployment. For example, if the probability of leaving unemployment for a job declines that longer one has already been unemployed, then this could be taken as evidence in support of the Clark and Summers (1979) hypothesis that a concentrated group of persistently unemployed are a large proportion of unemployment. The evidence presented here supports this view, but doubt remains as no allowance is made for other influencing factors.

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