{"id":60984,"date":"2025-04-29T19:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60984\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T19:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:20:08","slug":"nz-employment-holds-steady-but-recovery-remains-uneven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60984\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ employment holds steady, but recovery remains uneven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sector performance was mixed. Tourism-linked industries such as transport, retail, and hospitality saw modest hiring gains, alongside public services like health and education. In contrast, construction and business services continued to shed jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Regional differences were also pronounced, with rural areas and the South Island outperforming the main centres.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis split is likely to reflect strong agricultural export prices and the ongoing recovery in international tourism,\u201d Gordon said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The MEI, based on income tax data, typically predicts official labour force survey (HLFS) outcomes. Gordon said the March figures suggest a further rise in the unemployment rate is likely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Early signs of recovery in primary and goods sectors\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

ASB<\/a> senior economist Mark Smith (pictured right) said the March figures were \u201cslightly stronger than expected,\u201d with filled jobs up 0.2% month-on-month \u2014 the first quarterly gain in nearly a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sector performance was mixed. Tourism-linked industries such as transport, retail, and hospitality saw modest hiring gains, alongside public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,3374,13460,897,8414,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-60984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-employment","10":"tag-hiring","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-labour","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114422875924594356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}