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…
A Good Worker is Hard to Find: Skills Shortages in New Zealand Firms Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 This paper examines the determinants of firms’ skill shortages, using a specially-designed survey, the Business Strategy and Skills (BSS) module of the Business Operations Survey. We…
Women in trades: interviews with employers and tradeswomen Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2011 This study was to understand what employers were currently doing in New Zealand to attract and retain women in male-dominated trades and to learn more about…
Closing the gap: Plenty of potential economic upside Last Publication Date: 09 Aug 2011 A report by Goldman Sachs on the use of women's and men's talents across the economy.
Case studies of community initiatives addressing family violence in refugee and migrant communities Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2011 This research describes the kinds of initiatives that were perceived by community members and service providers as working well in refugee and migrant communities and the…
Evaluation of the No Asset Procedure Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2011 The No Asset Procedure (NAP) was introduced in December 2007 as a means to assist people who have no available assets or insufficient income to repay…
Improving our understanding of Auckland's competitiveness: A synthesis of the Auckland Research Programme Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2011 Between 2007 and 2011, the Auckland Policy Office (APO) managed a research programme with the objective of acquiring evidence about how policy can best contribute to…
Estimating the determinants of population in Auckland Last Publication Date: 01 May 2011 This paper analyses the location choices of new entrants to Auckland between 1996 and 2006, to identify a systematic relationship between residential location choices and features…
Evaluation of the Impacts of the Cross-Vote government assistance on firm performance Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2011 This report presents results from an evaluation of publicly-funded R&D assistance provided to New Zealand firms. We use recent econometric techniques to assess the impact of…
Enhancing Productivity: Towards an Updated Action Agenda Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2011 This paper presents an explanation of how the dynamic but uncertain process of economic development and growth occurs. It shows that economic development leads to structural…
