417 results in multiple government agencies
Last Publication Date: 1 Jun 2012
Social Work Now, Issue 50, pages 30-33. There are times when simple solutions to issues present themselves. The ability to explore innovations and new ways of…
Last Publication Date: 1 May 2012
This summary uses information on employers from the 2012 National Survey of Employers (NSE) and recent qualitative interviews, and data on employees from the 2012 Survey…
Quota Refugees Ten Years On: Perspectives on Integration, Community and Identity is a multi-year research programme that was developed to better understand the long-term journeys of…
This study reports on the English language acquisition of skilled migrants to New Zealand using findings from the Longitudinal Immigration Survey: New Zealand (LisNZ) and the…
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…
