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Ultimit benefit: Women Trainees in the Electricity Supply Industry

This research, by ESITO, shares the stories of nine women in the electricity supply industry. The aim of the research is to gain a better understanding…

Changes in women’s earnings

This report, prepared by NZIER, describes the drivers of changes in the economic returns to women’s skills over the past 30 years and considers how these…

Lightning does strike twice: preventing sexual revictimisation

This research presents a complex picture of sexual violence and revictimisation. It emphasises the importance of early identification of repeat survivors and the need to break…

Does gender matter? Findings from an online survey and interviews of engineering graduates from 2000 and 2005

Findings from an online survey and interviews of engineering graduates from 2000 and 2005. 

The labour participation response of mothers to changes in early childhood education costs

This is a selective review of the evidence on the link between the cost and availability of early childhood education (ECE), and parents’, particularly mothers’, participation…

Transforming cultures to grow women leaders

This report, prepared by the EEO Trust for the Ministry of Women's Affairs details case studies of six New Zealand companies' work on gender diversity. 

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…