New Zealanders work longer hours for less than most other developed countries. Photo / NZ Herald, File
OPINION:
The arguments against Fair Pay Agreements (and by implication higher wages), from the New Zealand Initiative’s Roger Partridge this week only stack up if you accept that wages in New Zealand arehigh enough, and also that if wages rose higher, then unemployment would go up.
It’s true that wages have risen in the last 30 years. So has the country’s total income (GDP). So, too, has population…

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