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Website: Ministry of Economic Development
Last Publication Date: 1 Feb 2015
The kiwiSaver Evaluation series is part of the programme of reporting, agreed to by Ministers at the outset of the evaluation, which is intended to provide…
Last Publication Date: 1 Apr 2012
Place matters in innovation. New ideas – and the capability to translate them into innovative goods, services, processes or markets – rely on the sharing of…
A firm’s business strategy does not exist in a vacuum; it requires employees to implement it. However, firms often say that they have difficulties hiring certain…
How is New Zealand best able to maximise the potential of its enterprise population? The simple answer is that it has to ensure that the "rules…
This paper summarises the results from two projects that investigated skills in New Zealand businesses. The first – The Impact of Skills on New Zealand Firms…
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of skill shortages on the supply of training within New Zealand firms. The study uses a…
This paper examines the determinants of firms’ skill shortages, using a specially-designed survey, the Business Strategy and Skills (BSS) module of the Business Operations Survey. We…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jul 2011
The No Asset Procedure (NAP) was introduced in December 2007 as a means to assist people who have no available assets or insufficient income to repay…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jun 2011
Between 2007 and 2011, the Auckland Policy Office (APO) managed a research programme with the objective of acquiring evidence about how policy can best contribute to…
Last Publication Date: 1 May 2011
This paper analyses the location choices of new entrants to Auckland between 1996 and 2006, to identify a systematic relationship between residential location choices and features…
