Buy Kiwi Made Campaign: Evaluation Report Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2009 Evaluation aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses of programmes and policies to improve their effectiveness. Many government evaluations take the form of impact evaluation as…
A profile of temporary workers and their employment outcomes Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2009 This paper describes the characteristics, jobs, employment patterns and employment outcomes of temporary workers, using data collected in Statistics New Zealand’s Survey of Working Life 2008. Approximately…
Making Ngā Kaihanga Hou a reality in Auckland Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2009 There is no doubt of Auckland’s importance to New Zealand overall as well as to Māori. Nearly one quarter of New Zealand’s total Māori population live…
What do students earn after their tertiary education? Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2009 This report looks at the group of nearly 30,000 young domestic students who last enrolled in a tertiary education provider in 2003, and examines the influence…
Beyond Reasonable Debt Part 2: The extent to which financial behaviour can explain over-indebtedness amongst New Zealand families Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 The Families Commission and Retirement Commision have jointly released this second report on debt. The study found that financial behaviour (notably not saving and living pay-to-pay ‘most'…
A review of how the training of the New Zealand health workforce is planned and funded: a proposal for a reconfiguration of the Clinical Training Agency Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 New Zealand has significant problems in recruiting, training and retaining adequate numbers of appropriate health and disability services workers. This is most likely to worsen.The planning…
The impact of firm closure on worker's future labour market outcomes Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 This paper examines the impact of job loss due to firm closure on workers’ employment, earnings, and benefit receipt. It uses data from Statistics New Zealand’s…
Regional Labour Market Overview Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 This report provides an overview of regional labour market trends over the past five years. It presents key labour market statistics for each region and examines…
New Zealand Monetary Policy and the Residential Housing Market – A Scoping Study Working Paper Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 This scoping study examines the relationship between New Zealand’s monetary policy and the residential housing market, and the implications of monetary policy on that market over…
Flying the nest: an analysis of Kiwi firms delisting from the NZX Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2009 Recent commentary has suggested an increasing trend in delistings from the NZX, driven by offshore takeovers. However, some of that commentary has been driven by anecdotal…