The Impact of Immigration and Local Workforce Characteristics on Innovation Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010 We combine firm-level microdata on innovation with area-level workforce characteristics to examine the relationship between local workforce characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills,…
Lifting Māori Productivity – a scoping paper Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010 Productivity is about using resources more efficiently. A better use of resources will deliver a wide range of benefits including higher incomes, better use of the…
National quality improvement programme review: Incident Management Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010 LECG was contracted by the Health Quality and Safety Commission to review the Incident Management and Reporting Programme – a workstream funded via the now disbanded…
Alcohol and Pregnancy: A practical guide for health professionals Last Publication Date: 02 Sep 2010 The purpose of this resource is to prompt and support primary care health professionals to: ask women who are planning a pregnancy or are pregnant if they…
Evaluating Health Impact Assessments in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 05 Aug 2010 Are Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) worthwhile? Answering this question involves evaluating HIAs, and the purpose of this paper is to provide guidance on the evaluation of…
Living Standards and Health: New Zealand 2006/07 Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2010 The report 'Living Standards and Health: New Zealand 2006/07' compares two measures of living standards that were included in the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey, and…
Saving Lives: Amenable mortality in New Zealand, 1996-2006 Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2010 The report re-examines the concept of amenable mortality (deaths potentially avoidable through health care) as a health system performance measure.Trends in amenable mortality over the past…
Changes to the Well Child/Tamariki Ora Framework Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2010 This document sets out the changes that are being made to the 2002 Well Child/Tamariki Ora Framework (the Framework) following a major review.The document describes the…
Supporting Evidence for Changes to the Content of the Well Child/Tamariki Ora Framework Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2010 In 2007 as part of the Well Child/Tamariki Ora Framework Review (the Review), the Ministry of Health developed this background paper setting out the evidence for…
The 2008 Rest & Meal Breaks Amendments to the Employment Relations Act 2000 Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2010 This research was carried out between October 2009 and May 2010 by Department of Labour researchers to identify to what extent the intended policy objectives of…