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Land Taxes and Revenue Needs as Communities Grow and Decline: Evidence from New Zealand

Kerr, Suzi; Aitken, Andrew; Grimes, Arthur - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2004

New Zealand is unusual in that nearly 60% of local services are funded from property taxes. These are a mixture of land taxes, capital value taxes, annual rental value taxes and uniform general charges. We explore the efficiency and equity of this system at both national and local levels. We...

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New Zealand: A Typical Australasian Ecomony?

Grimes, Arthur - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2004

We examine trend economic developments in New Zealand and in each of Australia's six states and two territories (i …

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Trans-Tasman Migration, Transnationalism and Economic Development in Australasia

Poot, Jacques - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2009

This paper focuses on migration between Australia and New Zealand, which has exhibited a strong, but cyclical, net … movement towards Australia since the late 1960s. A long-term historical perspective is taken. Trans-Tasman migration is also … Zealanders in Australia is expected to continue to grow but the migration flows become increasingly diversified. One-third of the …

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Would Adopting the US Dollar Have Led to Improved Inflation, Output and Trade Balances for New Zealand in the 1990s?

Hall, Viv; Huang, Angela - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2003

Deterministic simulations with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's core FPS model show how New Zealand's broad macroeconomic environment might have evolved over the 1990s, if a US nominal yield curve and US TWI exchange rate movements under a common currency arrangement had been experienced....

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Investigation of Options for a New Longitudinal Household Survey: Issues and Options Paper

Crawford, Ron; Maré, David C - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2013

We examine arguments for a new Longitudinal Household Survey (LHS) in New Zealand, and design and governance arrangements that would best realise the value of a new LHS. Other instruments such as cohort studies, cross-sectional surveys, the census and longitudinally linked administrative data...

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The Relationship between Individual Labour Market Outcomes, Household Income and Expenditure, and Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand from 1983 to 2003

Stillman, Steven; Le, Trinh; Gibson, John; Hyslop, Dean; … - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between individual labour market outcomes, household income and expenditure, and inequality and poverty in New Zealand using detailed data from the 1983/84 – 2003/04 Household Economic Survey (HES). We begin by discussing and summarising measures of...

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A State Housing Database: 1993-2009

Grimes, Arthur; Stillman, Steven; McDonald, Hugh; … - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2010

The 1990s saw a significant sell-off of state houses in New Zealand, while the 2000s saw a material rebuilding of the state house inventory. We provide in-depth documentation of a rich spatially-defined dataset of the stock, acquisition and disposal of New Zealand’s state houses since the...

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Household Wealth and Saving in New Zealand: Evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Family, Income and Employment

Le, Trinh; Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2010

This paper uses data from the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE) to estimate household saving in New Zealand between 2004-2006. Comprehensive data on wealth is collected biannually in SoFIE and we calculate household saving by examining how wealth has changed over time. We find that...

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Going to the Source: Using an Upstream Point of Regulation for Energy in a National Chinese Emissions Trading System

Kerr, Suzi; Duscha, Vicki - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2014

There are many choices within the design of an emissions trading system. In this paper we focus on one specific aspect – the point of regulation for the energy sector. This choice affects transaction costs; comprehensiveness, and hence the amount of emissions covered and the extent to which...

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The Ups and Downs of New Zealand House Prices

Hall, Viv B.; McDermott, John - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2006

This paper identifies the expansion and contraction phases of New Zealand's national and regional house prices, by employing techniques typically used to study cycles in real activity, the so-called Classical cycle dating method. We then enquire into the nature of the cycles, addressing five...

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