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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - 2004
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …
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Healthy, Wealthy and Working: Retirement Decisions of Older New Zealanders
Enright, James; Scobie, Grant M - 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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Working for Families changes: The effect on labour supply in New Zealand
Mok, Penny; Mercante, Joseph - 2014
changes for both subgroups. Overall, our results show that the WfF reform reduced the incidence and intensity of poverty as …
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Private Returns to Tertiary Education - How Does New Zealand Compare to the OECD?
Zuccollo, James; Maani, Sholeh; Kaye-Blake, Bill; Zeng, Lulu - 2013
How do private returns to tertiary education in New Zealand compare internationally? According to the latest OECD measures, the private rate of return for New Zealand is 8.9%, compared to an OECD average of 12.4%, placing New Zealand toward the bottom of the OECD ranking. The aim of this study...
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The changing gender distribution of paid and unpaid work in New Zealand
Callister, Paul - 2005
This paper explores five main questions regarding the gender distribution of work, primarily in the context of couples with young children. These are: how much total paid and unpaid work is carried out in New Zealand?; how is this work shared between women and men?; how does this compare with...
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Health and Labour Force Participation
Holt, Heather - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between health and labour force participation using data from the first three waves of the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE) (2002/05). Using various health measures, the results show that health is significantly related to labour force...
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The Cost of Ill Health
Holt, Heather - 2010
This paper aims to quantify some of the costs associated with ill health in New Zealand. The main focus is in estimating indirect costs as opposed to direct health care expenditure costs. In particular, it estimates the cost of absenteeism, presenteeism, working less and not working at all owing...
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Estimation of Labour Supply in New Zealand
Mercante, Joseph; Mok, Penny - 2014
In this paper we estimate labour supply using a discrete choice approach for single men, single women and single parents and a joint labour supply equation for couples in New Zealand. The data are based on pooled cross-sectional data from the Household Economic Survey over 2006/07 to 2010/11. We...
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Labour Supply in New Zealand and the 2010 Tax and Transfer Changes
Creedy, John; Mok, Penny - 2015
This paper examines the simulated labour supply responses to the personal tax and transfer policy changes introduced in New Zealand in 2010, and the implications for revenue and income distribution. The main changes examined are the increase in the GST rate from 12.5 to 15 per cent, along with...
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Qualifications, Employment and the Value of Human Capital, 1986-2001
Hyslop, Dean; Mare, Dave; Timmins, Jason - 2003
This paper summarises the changing nature of qualifications across the working age population in New Zealand over the period from 1986 to 2001, and investigates the relationships between the changing qualification distribution and employment and income. First, the results confirm that there was...
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