Our generous welfare state

minimum wage extended burtless fig 2

From Jim Rose’s blog, this shows the level of our unemployment benefit is higher than Sweden, Germany, Australia, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and the UK.

This is worth bearing in mind when people claim benefits levels have been so low since 1991, that they must be massively increased to keep relatively with NZ superannuation.

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