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The Motu Research Update is published every six months. It contains articles on recent research, a list of publications and updates on people and activities at Motu. We aim to write articles accessible to anyone with an interest in our research.
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Motu Research Update 17
Exploring land and property taxes for New Zealand
Costs of an emissions trading system for farmers
Productivity effects of broadband
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Motu Research Update 16
Spatial effects of rural infrastructure closures
Labour market outcomes for immigrants
Pacific people’s home ownership
Agglomeration and productivity
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Motu Research Update 15
Irrigation in a drought-prone farming region
Inflation and the true cost of housing finance
Employing teenagers
Dialogue groups and difficult issues
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Motu Research Update 14
Does immigration raise house prices?
The value of Auckland’s northern motorway extensions
Sharing the costs of improving water quality
Job growth and NZ’s changing mix of workers
Motu Research Update 13
Designing an emissions trading system for New Zealand
The economic impacts of immigration
Growth boundaries and Auckland land prices
Motu Research Update 12
Trends in youth activity from 1985 to 2004
Auckland housing supply: 2000-2005
High earners or high payers
Water quality - nutrient trading across generations
Motu Research Update 11
Labour market outcomes for young graduates
Tribute to Dr. Grant Scobie
Affordable housing in the Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough Regions: a solutions study
Pacific Island-New Zealand migration survey
The cost of remittances
Motu Research Update 10
Can’t find a builder?
Emissions charges: what can the LURNZ-Climate model tell us?
Defining areas: linking geographic data in New Zealand
Is Auckland underperforming?
‘Carbon Farming’ - a new land use opportunity?
Motu Research Update 9
NZIER Economics Award
Why are Maori less wealthy?
The benefits of being wrong: monitoring environmental compliance
The bunching of economic activity
The geographical mobility of Maori in New Zealand
Motu Research Update 8
By-products of economic change: Recent changes in the Maori income distribution
Youth minimum wage reform and the labour market
Regional cycles across Australasia
The impact of injuries on labour market outcomes
Regional business cycles in New Zealand
Motu Research Update 7
Oops I caught Hake!
A flexible economy? Entrepreneurship, firm dynamics and productivity in New Zealand
Firm dynamics in New Zealand
Do it if you like: the benefits and risks of voluntary credit programmes
Insights into New Zealand’s housing rental market
Motu Research Update 6
Sheep or cows?
Understanding the changing income distribution
What is typical New Zealand?
New Zealand: Australasian manufacturing centre
Internal migration and local labour markets
Motu Research Update 5
What drives New Zealand house prices?
Insolvency and regional economic development
Financing Local Government
Child poverty dynamics
Forest and land ownership, and deforestation liability
Motu Research Update 4
Education, incomes and employment growth
Community facilities database
Experimenting with exogenous shocks
Win-win with wind: in (cautious) praise of projects
Motu Research Update 3
Is New Zealand an economic state of Australasia?
Quota markets: are fishers rational?
Understanding adjustment and inequality
Land use, climate change and Kyoto: human dimensions research to guide New Zealand policy
Renewable energy and climate policy
Property taxation in New...