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Innovation and the city: Review of the Auckland regional innovation system

Place matters in innovation. New ideas – and the capability to translate them into innovative goods, services, processes or markets – rely on the sharing of…

Business Strategies and Employment Decisions: Interviews with New Zealand Firms

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…

Should the focus of publicly provided small business assistance be on start-ups or growth businesses?

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…

Business Strategy and Skills in New Zealand

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…

To Make or Buy (Skills): An Analysis of Training Decisions Using Microdata

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…

A Good Worker is Hard to Find: Skills Shortages in New Zealand Firms

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…

Transforming the New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings: Issues, options, and strategy

Transforming the New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings presents the issues on the development of a strategic direction and timeline for the transformation of the…

Childcare use and work arrangements in 1998 and 2009

Childcare use and work arrangements in 1998 and 2009 compares the findings of the New Zealand Childcare Survey 2009 with those of the New Zealand Childcare…

Points of Difference: Does the Skilled Migrant Category Points System Predict Wages?

The Skilled Migrant Category (SMC) is a points-based policy that allows people who have the ability to contribute to New Zealand economically and socially to gain…

How prepared are New Zealanders for a natural disaster? Results from the 2010 General Social Survey

This report outlines preparations New Zealand households have made for a natural disaster, using information from the 2010 New Zealand General Social Survey (NZGSS). It follows…