Collective Bargaining and the Labour Market Flexibility Debate in New Zealand: A Review

Raymond Harbridge and David Rea

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1992, vol. 3, issue 1, 126-152

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.

Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1177/103530469200300109

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