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The housing market is both large and complex. This paper develops a simple model that captures the essential features of the supply and demand for housing, and which is used to evaluate the impact of a range of policy interventions. Increases in the stock of housing would reduce rents and house...
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families, depending how individuals within families behave. This paper identifies the implications of five theories of family …
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withdrawal on the required saving rates. The main findings of this study are: • 60% of households are recorded as owning a home …; • Almost half of home-owning households have no mortgage debt; • One in six households own residential investment property …; • One in twelve households own a rental property; • Patterns of property ownership in New Zealand are similar to those in …
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Housing affordability has been a topic of much interest in New Zealand over recent years with the median house price increasing by over 50% between 2004 and 2008. The aim of this paper is to inform debate by drawing out evidence from two surveys: the Household Economic Survey (HES); and the...
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This review paper examines the link between internal migration and regional labour market adjustment. It outlines the motivation and scope of our enquiry, discusses the three key questions that we plan to pursue, reviews relevant international and New Zealand literature, and outlines proposals...
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Zealand regions over the period 1985 to 2001. It examines the effects of a region-specific shock to employment on itself, the …. However, this has to be placed into context – New Zealand regions are much smaller in terms of population size. …
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This paper presents an analysis of the distribution of socio- economic deprivation throughout New Zealand. The analysis focuses on the three census years 1986, 1991, and 1996. A summary deprivation measure is constructed which approximates New ZealandDep96 using standard regression techniques....
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/15 Towards an Inclusive Economy. It discusses the extent to which differences in economic and social indicators across regions … outlines some key policy directions. In some instances, differences in indicators of well-being between regions indicate … proportion is growing over time. Rural deprived regions, particularly Northland and Gisborne with 24% of their population living …
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New Zealand's Current Account of the Balance of Payments has been persistently in deficit since the early 1970s and increased markedly during the late 1990s. Is this a cause for significant concern? This paper tackles this question by evaluating New Zealand's external solvency, the degree of...
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There are three steps New Zealand can take to make its bilateral development assistance more effective in reducing poverty. These steps are ‘easy' because they are unilateral: they improve the effectiveness of development assistance without requiring changes in the politics or policies of...
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