Keith Rankin

Keith Rankin Analysis: What's happened to Labour Productivity? Labour productivity is an important economic concept, that should equate to living standards. It is rising labour productivity...

Headline: British Tories surge; new Labour surges more Analysis by Keith Rankin This month's chart shows that the performance by the Tories in the UK election...

Keith Rankin's Chart of the Month - Budget 2017: New Zealand's 'Universal' Basic Income up to $195 per week. The big unnoticed story of last Thursday's...

Analysis by Keith Rankin - Chart of the Month - Descended from Royalty? While reading a news-site recently, I caught a link to the following from...

Analysis by Keith Rankin. The demography of the United Kingdom, the tangata whenua of Ngāti Pakeha, is of interest to all of us. I caught...

Economic analysis by Keith Rankin. From 1979 to 1999, male and female net immigration were roughly on par; 11,000 males and 21,000 females over those...

Analysis by Keith Rankin. From 1986 until the beginning of 2016, Statistics New Zealand, through the Household Labour Force Survey, collected data on people “not...

Analysis by Keith Rankin. The current account of the balance of payments is a measure of a country’s level of financial imbalance. For the world...

Headline: Chart for this Month: Immigration Analysis: by Keith Rankin We hear constantly about record levels of immigration into New Zealand, and claims that...

Analysis by Keith Rankin. The official New Zealand income tax scale has four 'marginal' tax-rates: 10.5 percent; 17.5 percent; 30 percent and 33 percent. That...