5 Feb 2025

Unemployment continues to grow but who's bearing the brunt?

From Nights, 10:18 pm on 5 February 2025

Unemployment is back to its highest levels since the Covid-19 pandemic shut doors across the country.

156,000 New Zealanders are without work, or 5.1 percent of the working age population.

Of the 32,000 jobs lost last year, 85 percent were men.

To tell us more Maggie Tweedie talks to Brad Olsen, chief executive and principal economist at Infometrics.