Skills in the Labour Market Outlook
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Other products available from the Labour Market Dynamics team
SkillsInsight
SkillsInsight represents an analysis tool and series of reports that strive to provide clear and concise occupational labour market information from both official and non-governmental sources. SkillsInsight reports on individual sectors and occupations that provide more detailed information are now available.
The SkillsInsight tool has been designed to provide quantitative evidence about the supply of, and demand for, labour in New Zealand. In addition to supply and demand indicators, the tool displays demographic characteristics and industry compositions for all ninety-six 3-digit occupation groups.
Labour Market Analysis reports
The Department of Labour offers a range of labour market reports that analyse trends in employment, unemployment, participation and workforce growth for different ethnic and social groups. These reports are regularly updated and available on our website.
Jobs Online
Jobs Online is a monthly measure of changes in job advertisements drawn from the major internet job boards. It includes both the Skilled Vacancies Index and the All Vacancies Index, as well as a regional and detailed occupational breakdown. This information is updated monthly and is available on our website.
Workforce 2020
Workforce 2020 is the name of the Department's Labour Market Futures work programme. The current Workforce 2020 programme includes the following future labour market issues:
- Understanding workforce resilience in a recession
- The impact of demographic shift - population ageing:
- The employability and job mobility of older workers
- Workforce implications of the future demand for caregivers for the elderly
- Analysing the expatriate workforce of New Zealanders in Australia
- Investigating the contribution of skills to increased productivity
- Globalisation: The importance to NZ of the off shoring of ICT enabled services
- Globalisation: The impact of global remoteness on the productivity of the NZ labour market
- Analysing future workforce changes as a result of resource pressures.