Collective Bargaining and the Labour Market Flexibility Debate in New Zealand: A Review
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Economic and Labour Relations Review
- Vol. 3 (1) , 126-152
- https://doi.org/10.1177/103530469200300109
Abstract
This paper reviews the empirical evidence of rigidity in the New Zealand labour market over the period 1984–1990, with particular reference to collective bargaining. It demonstrates that labour market institutions displayed an important degree of flexibility over this period. Despite this, labour markets were stigmatized as ‘inflexible’ in public debate and labour market policy has been driven by the assumption that more flexibility was required.Keywords
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