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Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and practice in the 21st century

Authors: Dave Maré | Dean Hyslop

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This paper reviews the changes and impacts of the Statutory Minimum Wage in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past 20 years. The research finds minimum wage policies are not as effective as claimed by its...

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Voluntary climate mitigation in Aotearoa New Zealand

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This paper proposes an innovative two-track system aimed at scaling up voluntary climate action to help Aotearoa New Zealand meet its Paris Agreement targets – or mitigate beyond the targets.

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2021-04-12

Research shows NZ minimum wage policies not as effective (or damaging) as some claim

*Research shows NZ minimum wage policies not as effective (or damaging) as some claim* Motu Research has just released research that...

2021-03-30

New proposal to boost voluntary climate action in Aotearoa New Zealand

Researchers at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research have released a policy proposal for boosting voluntary climate action by New...

2020-12-04

Many challenges hinder Māori to realise their aspirations for native forestry on their land.

High costs and restrictive governance are just some of the roadblocks that stop Māori landowners from establishing native forestry on...

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1 April 2021

Motu Research briefing: Boosting voluntary climate action in Aotearoa New Zealand. Part 1

In this webinar, Motu Policy Fellow Catherine Leining introduced an innovative policy proposal for boosting voluntary carbon action and enabling organisations to make credible, transparent and marketable claims.

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14 October 2020

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

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14 September 2020

Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers and Policies

Alistair Dieppe from the World Bank presentation on his recent paper which presents the first comprehensive analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity growth, examines the impact of COVID-19 on productivity, and presents a wide-range of policies needed to rekindle productivity growth.

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Thoughts on Climate change in a post Covid world

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Population & labour

Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and practice in the 21st century

Authors: Dave Maré | Dean Hyslop

Working Paper

This paper reviews the changes and impacts of the Statutory Minimum Wage in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past 20 years. The research finds minimum wage policies are not as effective as claimed by its...
Environment

Permanent forest investment in a climate of uncertainty

Authors: Arthur Grimes | Sandra Cortés-Acosta

Working Paper

Forestry investment involves long time horizons. Planting decisions must be made amidst a range of uncertainties.
Environment

Voluntary climate mitigation in Aotearoa New Zealand

Working Paper

This paper proposes an innovative two-track system aimed at scaling up voluntary climate action to help Aotearoa New Zealand meet its Paris Agreement targets – or mitigate beyond the targets.
Population & labour

Covid-19 wage subsidy support and effects

Authors: Dave Maré | Dean Hyslop

Working Paper

This note provides a brief preliminary analysis of the short run impact of COVID-19 and the government’s Covid Wage Subsidy (CWS) response on labour market flows. We focus on two issues. First, to examine the...
Productivity & innovation

Living on the edge: An anatomy of New Zealand’s most productive firms

Author: Richard Fabling

Working Paper

We investigate the characteristics and performance of New Zealand’s frontier firms from 2005 to 2018, using the rich microdata in the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD). This paper draws on the labour and productivity datasets available...
Population & labour

The career paths and employment transitions of Early Childhood Education workers

Authors: Dean Hyslop | Trinh Le

Note

This research note analyses the career paths and labour market outcomes of the early childhood education (ECE) workforce.
Climate change mitigation

Challenges and opportunities with native forestry on Māori land

Authors: Sophie O'Brien | Pia Pohatu | Leo Mercer

Working Paper

A new research paper by Motu Economic and Public Policy Research explores the decision-making processes of Māori landowners. It looks at the extent to which land-use decision-making processes such as funding programmes and afforestation incentives...
Environment

A Growing Problem: Exploring Livestock Farm Resilience to Droughts in Unit Record Data

Authors: Levente Timar | Eyal Apatov

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In one of the first studies of its kind, a new paper by Motu Research investigates the impact of droughts on livestock farm enterprises by linking financial, agricultural and productivity data with historical weather...
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