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Large enterprises tax compliance costs

This document summarises the results of research with large enterprises (LE) about their tax compliance costs (including KiwiSaver) in 2010.

Auckland’s Knowledge Economy: Australasian and European Comparisons

This paper examines one key theme of modern spatial economics relating to city development: Do the major cities within and across countries increasingly attract a disproportionate…

Business Responses to the Introduction of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Part I: Baseline

This study creates a 2010 baseline of business responses to the introduction of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) and the reasons for those…

Enhancing Productivity: Towards an Updated Action Agenda

This paper presents an explanation of how the dynamic but uncertain process of economic development and growth occurs. It shows that economic development leads to structural…

Management Matters in New Zealand: How does Manufacturing Measure Up?

This paper benchmarks management practices in New Zealand manufacturing firms against the global best. The project was undertaken by a research team from the University of…

Working for Families Evaluation

The Working for Families Evaluation has been jointly conducted by the Ministry of Social Development and Inland Revenue Department. It aimed to assess: The implementation and…

Sole parenting in New Zealand

The Ministry of Social Development led a cross-agency and cross-sector research programme that looked at changes in the rate of sole parenthood, sole parent employment and…

Working for Families reports

The following reports are from the Working for Families project.

Criminalisation of Cartel Behaviour

This paper considers the case for criminalisation of hard-core cartel behaviour. Two frameworks are applied for considering the issue: retributive justice and deterrence (so as to…

Evaluation of the Venture Investment Fund

In this evaluation of the VIF the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) seeks to determine the progress of New Zealand’s venture capital market towards sustainability and…