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Health and Retirement of Older New Zealanders

Gorman, Emma; Scobie, Grant M; Towers, Andy - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2012

Increasing life expectancies and uncertainty about future retirement incomes are likely to lead to various changes in behaviour. As expectations are revised, one potentially important adjustment mechanism is in labour force participation rates. There is already evidence these are rising for...

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KiwiSaver: An Initial Evaluation of the Impact on Retirement Saving

Law, David; Meehan, Lisa; Scobie, Grant M - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2011

KiwiSaver is a voluntary savings scheme aimed at increasing the retirement wealth of a target population. A critical element shaping the success of KiwiSaver is the extent to which individuals participate in the scheme, given its voluntary nature; and, having chosen to participate, the extent to...

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Healthy, Wealthy and Working: Retirement Decisions of Older New Zealanders

Enright, James; Scobie, Grant M - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2010

Health status is an important element in the decision to continue working or retire among older workers. Given the demographic projections for the next four decades, there will be increasing opportunities for older workers to remain in the workforce. However, an individual’s decision is likely...

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The Impact of Workplace and Personal Superannuation Schemes on Net Worth: Evidence from the Household Savings Survey

Scobie, Grant M; Le, Trinh - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004

The central question addressed in this paper is: does having a workplace or personal superannuation scheme result in a higher level of accumulation for retirement? The paper presents a range of information about the participation and level of holdings in workplace and personal superannuation...

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Women’s Retirement Incomes in New Zealand: A Household Bargaining Approach

Gibson, John; Le, Trinh; Scobie, Grant - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004

Bargaining models of household wealth accumulation point to a potential conflict of interest between husbands and wives. Since wives are typically younger than their husbands and have longer life expectancy, they have to finance a longer expected retirement period. Thus, it is argued that when...

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Infrastructure and entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David; Heger, Diana; Veith, Tobias - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 2, pp. 219-230

This paper is one of the first studies to examine the link between infrastructure and entrepreneurship. Because …

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New Zealand’s perfect storm of entrepreneurship and economic development

Frederick, Howard; Monsen, Erik - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 2, pp. 187-204

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Religious institutions and entrepreneurship

Zelekha, Yaron; Avnimelech, Gil; Sharabi, Eyal - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 747-767

This article focuses on the impact of religious institutions on entrepreneurship. We find clear evidence that different … important contributions to the research of both religion and entrepreneurship. First, it proposes empirical evidence in which … the country’s main religion significantly affects its level of entrepreneurship at the macro level. Second, it adds to our …

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Global entrepreneurship and institutions: an introduction

Levie, Jonathan; Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltan; Hart, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 437-444

This article is an introduction to the special issue from the 4th Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference …. The second is to present a summary of the papers in the context of the utility of GEM data in comparative entrepreneurship …

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Relationship between individualist–collectivist culture and entrepreneurial activity: evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data

Pinillos, María-José; Reyes, Luisa - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 1, pp. 23-37

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