新西兰的失业率高达5.2%,略高于预测,工资增长放慢。 New Zealand's unemployment rate ticked up to 5.2%, slightly better than forecasts, with wage growth slowing.

新西兰的失业率从上一季度的5.1%和一年前的4.7%上升到2025年第二季度的5.2%。 New Zealand's unemployment rate rose to 5.2% in the second quarter of 2025, up from 5.1% in the previous quarter and 4.7% from a year ago. 这一小幅增长略高于预测的5.3%,但自2022年6月以来增加了1.9个百分点。 This slight increase is slightly better than the 5.3% forecast but represents a 1.9 percentage point rise since June 2022. 包括失业者和未充分就业者在内的未充分利用率增至12.8%。 The underutilization rate, including the unemployed and underemployed, increased to 12.8%. 尽管如此,财政部长Nicola Willis强调,这一比率低于财政部的预测,原因是政府的经济管理努力有所改进。 Despite these figures, Finance Minister Nicola Willis highlighted that the rate was lower than Treasury forecasts, attributing the improvement to the government's economic management efforts. 每小时平均收入比上一年增长了4.5%,尽管工资增长放缓至2.4%。 Average hourly earnings rose by 4.5% from the previous year, though wage growth has slowed to 2.4%. 预计储备银行将进一步削减利率以支持劳动力市场。 The Reserve Bank is expected to cut interest rates further to support the labor market.