ResearchArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Holler v Osaki: The careless tenant exonerated 
    Tsai, Po-En (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    The author examines the New Zealand Court of Appeal’s reasoning in Holler v Osaki [2016] NZCA 130. The Court held exoneration provisions in the Property Law Act 2007 were general principles of law so could be read into the ...
  • R v Earl Ferrers (1760): The Trial That Saved England From Revolution? 
    Barber, Simon (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    In 1760, Laurence Shirley, the Fourth Earl Ferrers, killed his steward in cold blood. He was found guilty of the murder before his peers in the House of Lords, and subsequently hanged. Whilst the Trial is seminal in any ...
  • Opportunity from disaster: Evidence of the Christchurch earthquake’s effects on high schoolers’ post-graduation outcomes 
    Cuffe, Harold E; Wills, Olivia (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    We estimate the causal effects of a large unanticipated natural disaster on high schoolers’ university enrolment decisions and subsequent medium-term labour market outcomes. Using national administrative data after a ...
  • A quarter of a century of fiscal responsibility: The origins and evolution of fiscal policy governance and institutional arrangements in New Zealand, 1994 to 2018. 
    Buckle, Robert A. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The foundations for New Zealand’s current fiscal policy governance and institutional arrangements were established nearly 25 years ago by the Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994 (FRA). This Act placed an emphasis on fiscal ...
  • CLEW'D IN June 2018 
    Plimmer, G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 25/09/2018)
    Employee performance management (PM) has become increasingly popular in the last three decades. It supposedly improves individual attitudes, and then organizational performance. It does this through a continuous process ...
  • CLEW'D IN February 2018 
    Plimmer, G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 25/09/2018)
    Unequal pay and sexual harassment are two examples of the persistence of gender inequalities, over 40 years since the emergence of second wave feminism and the passing of Equal Pay legislation. Although many formal and ...
  • CLEW'D IN April 2017 
    Plimmer, G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 25/09/2018)
    New Zealand women are paid 12% less than men on an hourly basis and, far from improving, the gap is widening (Statistics New Zealand, 2016). Dr Jackie Blue, the Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Commissioner at the Human ...
  • CLEW'D IN February 2017 
    Plimmer, G (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 25/09/2018)
    Since enactment of the Employment Contracts Act (ECA) in 1991, for the duration of which the New Zealand Government ceased compiling such data, the Centre for Labour, Employment and Work (formerly Industrial Relations ...
  • Social Tagging for Graphic Novels: A Content Analysis of Graphic Novel Collections in New Zealand Public Libraries 
    Mehrtens-Carey, Benjamin John (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Research problem: The problem addressed in this research concerns the lack of metadata in public library catalogue records for graphic novels. Although social tagging by library users may help to mitigate this, what kinds ...
  • Did tax-transfer policy change New Zealand disposable income inequality between 1988 and 2013? 
    Nolan, Matt (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This paper investigates the role tax and transfer policies changes played in the increase in disposable income inequality over the 1988-2013 period. Utilising the Household Economic Survey (HES) and a behavioural microsimulation ...
  • Income-leisure preferences in New Zealand: 1988-2013 
    Nolan, Matt (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This paper reports estimates for discrete choice labour supply models for New Zealand wage and salary earners for four periods: 1988/89-1992/93, 1993/94-1997/98, 2000/01-2007/08, and 2008/09-2012/13. Utilizing data from ...
  • New Zealand Wage Equations: 1988-2013 
    Nolan, Matt (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This paper reports estimates for wage equations for New Zealand wage and salary earners for four periods: 1987/88-1990/91, 1991/92-1997/98, 2000/01-2007/08, and 2008/09-2012/13. Utilizing data from the Household Economic ...
  • Income Tax and Transfer Policy Changes in New Zealand: 1988-2013 
    Nolan, Matt (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The goal of this paper is deliver an outline of the primary income tax and transfer policy settings in New Zealand between 1988 and 2013. The 1988-2013 period saw significant change in the tax and benefit systems, as the ...
  • Horizontal and Vertical Equity in the New Zealand Tax-Transfer System: 1988-2013 
    Nolan, Matt (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Between 1988 and 2013 New Zealand’s tax and welfare systems have experienced a significant period of change, with real benefit payments and tax rates both declining. When evaluating the perceived fairness of these reforms ...
  • Fiscal space and government-spending & tax-rate cyclicality patterns: A cross-country comparison, 1960-2016 
    Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; Park, Donghyun (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The upward trajectory of OECD policy interest rates may impose growing fiscal challenges, thus testing the fiscal space of countries and their resilience. Against this background, we compare fiscal cyclicality across Asia, ...
  • Environmental Taxation and Expenditure in New Zealand 
    Tipper, Adam; Harkness, Jane (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Environmental accounting aims to understand the interactions between the environment and the economy. Environmental protection expenditure and taxes are two key environmental accounts that shed light on society’s economic ...
  • Microsimulation Analysis of Optimal Income Tax Reforms. An Application to New Zealand 
    Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman; Hérault, Nicolas; Mok, Penny (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This paper examines the optimal direction of marginal income tax reform in the context of New Zealand, which recently reduced its top marginal income tax rate to one of the lowest in the OECD. A behavioural microsimulation ...
  • Estimating Self-Employment Income-Gaps from Register and Survey Data: Evidence for New Zealand 
    Cabral, Ana Cinta G.; Gemmell, Norman (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This paper provides estimates of the income-gap of the self-employed – defined as the proportion of undeclared to true income – in New Zealand using traces of expenditure to infer true income holdings following the approach ...
  • Relative Income Dynamics of Individuals in New Zealand: New Regression Estimates 
    Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman; Laws, Athene (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This paper reports new estimates of simple regression models of income dynamics, using a special New Zealand anonymous dataset compiled from Inland Revenue data. The pattern of relative income changes, despite being subject ...
  • The Elasticity of Taxable Income of Individuals in Couples 
    Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This paper examines the effect on the elasticity of taxable income for individuals in couples, where there is no income splitting for tax purposes but joint decisions are taken regarding taxable incomes. Two approaches are ...

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