Do New Zealand firms catch up to the domestic productivity frontier? Working Paper Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2015 New Zealand has a poor productivity track record at the level of the aggregate economy and there is little evidence of productivity “catching up” towards that…
Inquiry Report: Effectiveness of governance arrangements in the arts, culture, and heritage sector Last Publication Date: 01 May 2015 New Zealanders place great value on culture and engaging in cultural activities. Public entities in the arts, culture, and heritage sector play an important role in…
Evaluation standards for Aotearoa New Zealand ANZEA Last Publication Date: 01 May 2015 Superu has worked in partnership with the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA) to develop a set of Aotearoa-specific evaluation standards that set out the expectations…
New Zealand’s productivity growth: Component and industry decompositions Last Publication Date: 01 May 2015 This note applies Diewert (2014a)’s productivity growth decomposition method to New Zealand data. This approach decomposes aggregate labour productivity growth into: industry labour productivity growth, changes…
Key findings from the 2014 Survey of AML/CFT reporting entities: awareness across sector Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2015 This report summarises the results of the Department of Internal Affairs’ (the Department) 2014 survey of its reporting entities under the Anti-Money Laundering & Countering the…
Review of Police Crime Data Last Publication Date: 16 Feb 2015 This is a report of the results of a review of the quality of police crime data undertaken by Statistics NZ at the request of the…
Who benefits from productivity growth? The labour income share in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2015 There is international interest in changes in the labour income share. In part, this reflects concerns that in a number of countries, real wage growth has…
Community-led Development Evaluation Reports Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2015 The philosophy underpinning community-led development is one of community empowerment. It is illustrated by broad community engagement to identify shared issues and concerns to generate local…
Public opinion on councils’ role to provide shade in public places: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2015 HPA’s SunSmart programme encourages New Zealanders to reduce excessive sun exposure by staying in the shade, as well as adopting other sun protection behaviours. In addition…
Local government: Results of the 2013/14 audits Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2015 Challenging times continued for local authorities in 2013/14. Elected members, many in office for the first time, are being asked to respond to matters of growing…
