This strategy aims to double the value of New Zealand's mineral exports to $3 billion by 2035. It highlights the significance of minerals for various sectors and details plans to scale up existing exports, explore new critical mineral opportunities and add value to minerals through domestic processing.

This report showcases results from a 2024 survey of hospitality and tourism employees and their employment conditions in New Zealand. It captures views from a broad range of respondents, varying by demographics, roles, job levels and organisational types across all sub-sectors of hospitality and tourism. The report provides evidence for further efforts and interventions in...

This Employment Action Plan sets out a program of actions for government agencies to support more New Zealanders into work and give them greater opportunities to realise their potential. It lays out the Government’s vision to support people to gain and retain employment, and the steps needed to achieve this.

The New Zealand government is aiming to develop an enduring minerals sector that enhances prosperity for New Zealanders, demonstrates its value, and delivers minerals for a clean energy transition. This draft strategy document has been released to gather stakeholder input prior to preparing the final strategy.

This paper provides descriptive analysis of regional economic resilience in New Zealand during the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus on the resilience of regional labour markets, and complement this with analysis of regional labour reallocation, two regional case studies, and discussion of longer-term drivers of change in the regions and their...