Hello everyone. Andrea Black here – the new Policy Director and Economist for the CTU.
Continuing the multidisciplinary approach started with Bill Rosenberg and his origins in mathematical psychology, I am coming to you following a career in policy, accounting and tax – including tax enforcement.
Read More »Happy New Year
I finish ten wonderful years as CTU Policy Director and Economist at the end of the year. In the new year I’ll be working part time for the CTU on the ‘Future of Work’. So it is a good time to look at what the Government is doing in this space.
Read More »Working for a better future of work
Union members benefit from a pay premium and other advantages resulting from their collective action and voice. But do unions provide a wider benefit to society over and above what they do for their members?
Read More »Unions as a public goodIn July, the Centre for Labour, Employment and Work (CLEW) at Victoria University released their annual analysis of collective employment agreements (CEAs). It shows again that people who are part of a collective get better pay rises: the union pay premium.
In June, Statistics New Zealand published data from its annual Annual Enterprise Survey (AES) which shows company profits, wages and salaries paid, and many other… Read More »Company profits rising, wage shares falling
Last Tuesday the CTU launched a report by economist Dr Ganesh Nana on the evidence as to the impacts of industry (or sector) collective bargaining.… Read More »Fair Pay Agreements and the retail sector
Was the “Wellbeing Budget” much different from any other Budget? Was it better? It is of course the first one, so we need to allow… Read More »The Wellbeing Budget
The Prime Minister has announced that the Government will not tax the income from capital gains while she is Prime Minister. It has therefore lost… Read More »Finding enough revenue and the ‘Wellbeing Budget’
This commentary is an edited version of a recent speech, “Transforming New Zealand’s low wage economy”. Whether we look at international comparisons, or look at… Read More »Transforming New Zealand’s low wage economy
The Tax Working Group (TWG) has reported back. The reactions to the proposal for taxing the income from capital gains have ranged from the sublime… Read More »What the Tax Working Group did and didn’t do
This commentary looks at the year ahead. The Prime Minister has described this as the year of ‘delivery’ for the Government and she aint wrong.… Read More »The outlook for 2019
Newly released statistics allow us to update the share of New Zealand’s income that goes to wages and salaries – the labour share – for… Read More »How New Zealand’s income is shared, 2018