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lems, at the same time, it increased immigrant audits, which mainly allowed those in urgent need to immigrating to New Zealand, relaxing audit to investment immigration to ensure that they could bring funds that New Zealand's economic development needed (Lee, Lusk, Mirosa and Oey, 2016).

2.2 Unemployment rate
From 2013 to 2015, New Zealand's unemployment rate showed a slight downward trend, from 6.9% in 2013 to 5.8% in 2015 (Giorgi and Gambetti, 2017). New Zealand's unemployment rate fell because, first, the global economic downturn has a negative impact on New Zealand's export-oriented economy, but New Zealand still achieved a more substantial economic growth. New Zealand’s GDP growth rate of nearly 5 years was up to 3.6%, which ranked first among developed countries, economic growth provided a large number of employment opportunities. Second, the hotel industry, retail, care, construction industries developed more rapidly in New Zealand, these industries need a lot of not well-educated workers, attracting a large number of personnel to be employed in these areas. Finally, New Zealand's labor force participation rate and quantity of employment declined in 2015, leading to that people were more likely to find jobs, the unemployment rate and then declined (Bhattarai, 2016).
The costs of the New Zealand government for increasing employment rate mainly include, first, about 80% of the costs of vocational training comed from government grants, effectively helping people to improve their skills and increase their employment opportunities. Second, about 7 billion US dollars each year were used to expand infrastructure construction and increase people's employment opportunities. Finally, in order to encourage employment, the government also granted various subsidies, such as providing individuals who have worked in the designated areas for a period of time would receive 1,000 NZD of financial incentives; awarding 3,000 NZD to those who were from other areas and chose to work in Christchurch area (Giorgi and Gambetti, 2017).
The New Zealand government has reflected on its policies of high welfare and high security, recognizing that there was the need for a new balance between employment and social security, through the reform of the existing welfare system to integrate employment services with the provision of welfare, encouraging people to work. For these reasons, the government has taken some measures. The first measure was to increase the income of the employed, widening the income gap between the employed and the unemployed, while also providing subsidies to help them to solve their problems such as transportation and child care. The second measure was to raise the threshold for receiving benefits. The third measure was to supervise the unemployed and subsidized people to look for jobs that suit their abilities. The fourth measure was to increase the opportunities for young people to participate in skills training, so that students who have just graduated from schools could go directly to workplace to receive skills training, young people could receive high quality training in a wider range of industries and occupations. The fifth was to work with employers, through government agencies to find out what kind of employees that employe