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Estimating the impact of the Families Package changes in financial incentives
Authors: Dave Maré | Dean Hyslop | Lynn Riggs
Working Paper
This paper looks at if parents responded to changed work incentives resulting from increasing the abatement threshold for Working for Families as part of the Families Package.
We found no evidence parents responded to this particular…
Monitoring enjoyment of the rights to adequate housing and health care and protection in Aotearoa New Zealand
Authors: Livvy Mitchell | Susan Randolph | Paddy Baylis
Working Paper
This new paper shows successive New Zealand Governments have failed to keep human rights promises so all Kiwis can have the basic levels of housing and health care and protection in Aotearoa. The New Zealand…