ResearchArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Gender gap in upward mobility: What is the role of non-cognitive traits? 
    Chu, Luke Yu-Wei; Linz, Susan J. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Do non-cognitive traits contribute to the gender gap in supervisory status and promotion? We use a large linked employer-employee dataset collected from six former socialist countries to assess the link between non-cognitive ...
  • Long-run Fiscal Projections under Uncertainty: The Case of New Zealand 
    Ball, Christopher; Creedy, John; Scobie, Grant (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This paper introduces uncertainty into a fiscal projection model which incorporates population ageing along with a number of feedback effects. When fiscal policy responds in order to achieve a target debt ratio, feedback ...
  • Labour Supply in New Zealand and the 2010 Tax and Transfer Changes 
    Creedy, John; Mok, Penny (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 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 ...
  • Debt Projections and Fiscal Sustainability with Feedback Effects 
    Creedy, John; Scobie, Grant (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This paper analyses long-term fiscal sustainability with a model which incorporates a number of feedback effects. When fiscal policy responds to ensure long-term sustainability, these feedback effects can potentially modify ...
  • Innovation and growth with financial, and other, frictions 
    Chiu, Jonathan; Meh, Cesaire; Wright, Randall (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The generation and implementation of ideas are crucial for economic performance. We study this in a model of endogenous growth, where productivity increases with innovation, and where the exchange of ideas (technology ...
  • Critical relationship between climate change awareness and action: An origin-based perspective 
    Schott, C. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    While it is now widely accepted by scientists and governments that human activity contributes to climate change, there is a lack of understanding whether this realisation is now gaining greater attraction with the general ...
  • Young non-institutionalised volunteer tourists in Guatemala: Exploring youth and self-development 
    Schott, Christian (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    This chapter extends the research on the development of the self as an aspect of volunteer tourism experiences by presenting findings from a study of young non-institutionalised volunteer tourists in a developing country. ...
  • CLEW'D IN April 2015 
    Plimmer, G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Poor leadership, weak people management and flawed upward information flows are contributing to the stagnation of public sector productivity, participants at a recent seminar were told. A change in focus for the HR profession ...
  • Public servants want to make a difference 
    Plimmer, G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    New Zealand public servants are generally satisfied with their jobs and want to make a difference to society, although they have mixed feelings about their organisations. To understand this discrepancy between what they ...
  • Survey shows hard road for public sector reforms 
    Plimmer, G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    In April 2013, the Public Service Association and Victoria University’s School of Management surveyed public servants about their jobs, workplaces and organisations. Almost 16,000 PSA members took part from a wide range ...
  • The effect of payday lending restrictions on liquor sales 
    Cuffe, Harold E; Gibbs, Christopher G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    We exploit a change in lending laws to estimate the causal effect of restricting access to payday loans on liquor sales. Leveraging lender- and liquor store-level data, we find that the changes reduce sales, with the largest ...
  • Engaging tourism students through multi-media teaching and active learning 
    Schott, C (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    Teachers of tourism play an important role in assisting students to develop geographical knowledge and a sound understanding of tourism terminology and statistics, coupled with an ability to put these attributes into use ...
  • Leadership for transformation in tourism education 
    Schott, C. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    In light of ever greater financial and philosophical attacks on tourism higher education across the world, it is critical to contemplate the role of tourism education at university level and its place in modern societies. ...
  • Proactive crisis management tools : Ecolabel and Green Globe 21 experiences from New Zealand 
    Schott, C. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    This article addresses the theme of crisis management in tourism by adopting a proactive rather than a reactive perspective. As such, it examines ecolabels as one of the proactive mitigation mechanisms with the capacity ...
  • Selling adventure tourism : A distribution channels perspective 
    Schott, C. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    This article examines the distribution channels structure as well as the underlying factors influencing the most prominent channel choices within the adventure tourism industry. It is based on in-depth interviews with ...
  • Tourism and climate change : Interrelationships and implications 
    Schott, C. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    This chapter contextualizes the interrelationships between tourism and climate change and thus provides an introduction to this volume. It commences with a brief but comprehensive overview of the key issues identified by ...
  • Tourism and climate change : Public and private sector responses in New Zealand 
    Schott, C. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    While the need to respond to the wide-ranging challenges posed by climate change has been widely emphasized, there is still a relative lack of attention being given to the type, scale, and nature of responses that are ...
  • Tourism distribution channels : The visitors' perspective 
    Schott, C. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)
    This paper extends research on tourism distribution channels, a topic dominated by studies of providers and intermediaries, by addressing the use of multiple channels from the visitors’ perspective. The paper reports the ...
  • Travel arrangements and the distribution behaviour of New Zealand outbound travellers 
    Schott, C. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    This paper contributes to the literature on tourism distribution by examining the distribution behavior of 547 New Zealand outbound travelers segmented by the way in which they have made their travel arrangements: package ...
  • Domestic vs. outbound booking and channel choice behaviour : Evidence from New Zealand 
    Schott, C. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    Purpose - This paper seeks to analyze the extent to which New Zealand domestic and outbound travelers’ book components of their trip in advance or at their destination and to explore the factors that influence this. ...

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