Principal Consultant Rob Heyes looks at whether the surge in incoming migrants has changed the make-up of the labour market across New Zealand. He finds that the distribution of the migrant workforce is following already familiar patterns.

Infometrics monthly webinar recordings are available on our website.

If you are a client, you have access August's recording. After one month, recordings are made available to the public.

August 2024: Labour market changes

July 2024: Half Year Economic Scorecard

Chief Executive and Principal Economist Brad Olsen and Chief Forecaster Gareth Kiernan discuss:

22 August 2024: QEM shows economic crunch deepening for regional economies

22 August 2024: Population growth slowing, housing market still down

16 August 2024: RBNZ cuts the OCR to 5.25%, U-turns on May

9 August 2024: Unemployment rises to 4.6% in mid 2024

The regional groupings are for Metro, Provincial, and Rural areas, and are available in our Quarterly Economic Monitor (QEM) and our Regional Economic Profile (REP). These new regional groupings provide further insights that make it easier to compare a city or district to a similar collection of areas.
For non-clients, you are able to see these groupings in our publicly available New Zealand profile.