The Labour Market Returns to Industry Training Last Publication Date: 01 May 2012 This paper investigates the earnings benefits obtained by adults aged 20–64 who participated in industry training between January 2003 and December 2008. A growing number of adults…
New Zealand Police Workplace Survey results 2012 Last Publication Date: 27 Apr 2012 Over the past few years the NZ Police Workplace Survey has helped provide valuable insight into the climate of our organisation. It has provided a focus…
To Make or Buy (Skills): An Analysis of Training Decisions Using Microdata Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 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…
Business Strategy and Skills in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 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…
Prisoner double-bunking: Perceptions and impacts (2012) Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 Throughout the last decade the Department of Corrections was faced with the need to accommodate significant increases in the number of prisoners, and to do so…
Innovation and the city: Review of the Auckland regional innovation system Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 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 Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 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…
The Use of Evidence to Improve Education and Serve the Public Good Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 This paper explores the challenge of mobilising research to inform ongoing improvement in valued outcomes for diverse (all) learners across school systems. The context is an…
Privacy survey 2012 Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 The poll was a telephone survey by UMR of 750 New Zealanders 18 years of age and older, conducted from 22 to 27 March 2012.
To Make or Buy (Skills): An analysis of training decisions using microdata Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 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…
