Understanding the productivity of New Zealand firms

This Cut to the Chase highlights three recent papers that use firm-level data to understand better the productivity of New Zealand firms: "Firm productivity growth and skills" by David Maré, Dean Hyslop and Richard Fabling; "Production function estimation using New Zealand’s Longitudinal Business Database" by Richard Fabling and David Maré; and "Addressing the absence of hours information in linked employer-employee data" by Richard Fabling and David Maré. These papers are a product of the Productivity Hub’s Longitudinal Business Data Research Partnership with Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.