Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivates a firm to offer opportunities for skill acquisition, but few...

This note provides a brief preliminary analysis of the short run impact of COVID-19 and the government’s Covid Wage Subsidy (CWS) response on labour market flows. We focus on two issues. First, to examine the selectivity of the CWS, we describe the characteristics of firms and of workers who...

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of labour in New Zealand, over the period 2001-12, using longitudinal data from Statistics New Zealand’s Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and Integrated Data Infrastructure...

This paper analyses changes in the distribution of equivalised gross household income and income inequality in New Zealand between 1983 and 1998. We analyse the distributional effects of changes in household structure, National Superannuation (old age pension), household socio-demographic...

The intertemporal labor force participation of married women is analyzed using a dynamic search framework. Maximum simulated likelihood (MSL) estimation is used to estimate dynamic Probit models, and the sensitivity to alternative assumptions examined using Linear Probability models....

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of labour in New Zealand, over the period 2001-12, using longitudinal data from Statistics New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and Integrated Data Infrastructure...