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Corey Allan wins Heading West Award
Corey Allan has been given the Heading West Award. This award gives Corey free travel and accommodation for the 2016 AARES Annual Conference in Canberra. Corey will present on land use in New Zealand, building on…
Nov 10, 2015
Amazing new research projects
Jamie Morton from the NZ Herald reports on the 2015 Marsden Funding grants, including a look at Isabelle Sin's research into the brain drain.
Nov 6, 2015
Marsden Funding for skilled migration research
New Zealand has the highest skilled emigration rate in the OECD at 24.2 percent, yet our understanding of the forces driving our skilled graduates overseas is limited. Isabelle Sin, a researcher at Motu Economic and Public…
Nov 5, 2015
Research shows average skill of workers fell between 2001-12
RNZ National's business news for 4 November 2015 included a segment on Motu's Firm Productivity Growth and Skills paper, with a quote from Dave Maré.
Nov 4, 2015
Productivity and low-skill employment growth
New Zealand’s strong employment growth between 2001 and 2012 drew in a disproportionate number of lower skilled workers. This change offset the growth in skill of the New Zealand work force by 1.8%. “The overall change…
Nov 3, 2015
Marsden Fund under the microscope
The Independent Research Association of New Zealand (IRANZ) published an article about Adam Jaffe's research into the Marsden Fund in their November 2015 Newsletter.
Nov 3, 2015
Oxford University Presentation on Immigrant Intergration Podcast
Motu affiliate Jacques Poot recently presented work by Arthur Grimes, Matthew Roskruge and himself at Oxford University. The presentation is podcast here. In this presentation Poot compares immigrant and native-born social capital formation by means of…
Oct 29, 2015
Overhauling NZ’s Emissions Trading Scheme
The recent report from the Ministry for the Environment has lead the Green Party’s co-leader, James Shaw to call for an overhaul of NZ’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and to include agriculture. “In NZ, 48% of…
Oct 28, 2015
Treasury Guest Lecture by Arthur Grimes
Maximising Utility: Taking Measures of Wellbeing Seriously in Policy Governments and policy-makers across the world now pay at least lip-service to maximising the wellbeing of their citizens, rather than maximising GDP per capita. Calls in this…
Oct 5, 2015
Evaluation of Marsden Fund shows Scientific Output Increased
New Zealand spends less money on research, relative to its size, than three-quarters of the countries in the OECD. “The government is considering expanding public funding to narrow this gap, but very little has been known…
Oct 2, 2015
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