Structural change and New Zealand’s productivity performance Last Publication Date: 05 Jun 2014 Shift-share analysis decomposes aggregate labour productivity growth into a contribution from within-industry productivity growth and a contribution from employment movements across industries with differing labour productivity…
New Zealand's international trade in services: A background note Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2014 This research note draws together information on New Zealand’s international trade in services and was prepared as background information for the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into ‘Boosting…
Ngā Takahanga Waewae o Ngā Kaipakihi Māori: The Footsteps of Māori Entrepreneurs Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2014 Māori entrepreneurship and Māori in business are growing fields of inquiry particularly since the financial recessions of the 1980s. The importance to the New Zealand economy…
Government and sector-level tertiary e-learning initiatives Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2014 This report gives an overview of the literature published between 2004 and 2013 relating to government and sector-level tertiary e-learning initiatives in New Zealand, Australia, Canada,…
2013 Annual Evaluation Report for the Teach First NZ programme pilot delivered in partnership with the University of Auckland Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2014 This evaluation’s main purpose is to understand how well the programme has been implemented and to what extent it has achieved its objectives. The key evaluation…
Environmental Radioactivity in New Zealand and Rarotonga: Annual Report 2011 Last Publication Date: 08 May 2014 Results of the Ministry of Health's environmental radioactivity monitoring programme are published annually in the Environmental Radioactivity in New Zealand and Rarotonga - Annual Report. The atmosphere…
Explaining international differences in the prices of tradables and non-tradables (with a New Zealand perspective) Last Publication Date: 06 May 2014 The World Bank‟s International Comparison Program (ICP) 2005 data on national price levels for tradables and non-tradables (and goods compared to services) reveals that New Zealand…
Massive Open Online Courses Last Publication Date: 01 May 2014 Internationally, a number of emerging technologies and associated developments are becoming available that could have far‐reaching effects on the delivery of tertiary education. One of these…
Options for future New Zealand censuses: Census Transformation programme Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2014 This paper outlines potential options for future censuses in New Zealand. These options form the basis for investigative work to assess the feasibility of each option.…
An international perspective on the New Zealand productivity paradox Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2014 New Zealand’s broad policy settings should generate GDP per capita 20% above the OECD average, but it is actually over 20% below average. Closing this gap…
