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Unemployment is unacceptably high in New Zealand. Although it is now falling sharply, on the latest figures 8.4 percent of the reported labour force is still without employment. Read more
It is unrealistic to ask at this early stage whether the Resource Management Act has been a “success”. We still to a very large extent in transition from one regime to another. Read more
This report addresses the question of what should become of New Zealand's minimum wage law. Read more
I have been asked to review issues raised by the International Labour Organisation ('the ILO') in response to a complaint ('the complaint') dated 8 February 1993 made by the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions ('the NZCTU'). In substance the complaint is that the Employment Contracts Act 1991 (NZ) ('the Act'), which came into operation on 15 May 1991, does not accord with principles adopted by the ILO in relation to freedom of association and collective bargaining. Read more
The authors analyse three reform proposals to the 1992 system of government: the replacement of the first-past-the-post electoral system with proportional representation, the reintroduction of a second chamber of parliament and increased use of referenda. The study assesses whether such reforms would improve the workings of government. Read more
The 1990s are destined to be a decade of profound and potentially beneficial change in the New Zealand economy. The process of structural reform is well advanced and is laying the foundations for a significant and sustained reversal of our inferior economic performance. Read more
The New Zealand experience with requiring state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to be run as successful businesses demonstrates that high quality reforms can generate enormous gains in productivity, product quality and profitability - along with lower (real) prices for consumers. Nevertheless, the gains were always likely to be limited by the difficulties involved in: * applying full commercial disciplines when state industries do not have to succeed to survive; * providing risk capital to SOEs when fiscal constraints and/or political considerations may conflict with commercial goals; * making the competitive environment genuinely neutral, when continuing government ownership brings with it the possibility of future state bail-outs; and * maintaining the early gains in the face of the political pressures to weaken the commercial disciplines which were put in place when the SOEs were first formed. Read more
This report examines New Zealand’s fiscal policy in the context of wider policies aimed at restructuring the economy in order to raise income and employment levels, and outlines the desirable directions of fiscal policy over the medium term. Read more