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Speeches and presentations
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Job Probation: What is all the Fuss About?
17 July 2006, Roger Kerr
Roger Kerr's speech to the Wellington Rotary Club
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Population, Immigration and the Labour Market
13 November 2005, Roger Kerr
For Policy purposes population is not an issue with major implications for the labour market, and there is little point trying to limit the total size of New Zealand's population because of concerns over unemployment or other labour market outcomes.
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Lessons From Labour Market Reform in New Zealand
18 March 2005, Roger Kerr
Roger Kerr to the The H R Nicholls Society's XXVI Conference in Melbourne Australia
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Policies for a Bygone Era
25 March 2004, Norman LaRocque
Speech by Norman LaRocque to the Plimmerton Rotary Club in Wellington
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Assessing the Employment Relations Act
19 November 2001, Roger Kerr
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The Brain Drain
2 May 2001, Roger Kerr
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Successes and Failures of Labour Market Reform in New Zealand
16 October 1999, Roger Kerr
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The Employment Contracts Act and the 1999 Election
2 July 1999, Roger Kerr
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Population and Immigration
25 July 1997, Roger Kerr
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Obstacles to Employment and Productivity Growth in New Zealand's Labour Market
3 March 1997, Roger Kerr
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The New Zealand Immigration Debate: Some Australian Perspectives
2 August 1996, John Hyde
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Deregulation of the New Zealand Labour Market: Things Done and Left Undone
15 May 1996, Charles Baird
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Freedom in the Labour Market: Some Australian Reflections
15 May 1996, Ray Evans
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Why Not Full Employment By 2000?
15 May 1996, Douglas Myers
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The ECA: Almost a Model for the World
19 March 1996, Charles Baird
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Globalisation and Immigration: Long-Term Perspectives for New Zealand
28 May 1993, Wolfgang Kasper
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The Challenge of the '90s: Labour Reform in Australasia
19 February 1993, Roger Kerr
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Immigration Policy: Have We Got it Right?
26 May 1992, Ralph Norris
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A Better Way of Working
24 April 1991, Roger Kerr
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The Employment Contracts Bill
13 April 1991, Roger Kerr
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Where to Now in Labour Relations?
31 July 1990, Douglas Myers
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Books and reports
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Power in Employment Relationships: Is there an imbalance?
20 March 2006, Geoff Hogbin
NZ $22.50
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Affirmative Action: The US Experience and Implications for New Zealand
20 April 2005, Richard A Epstein
This lecture, Affirmative Action: The US
Experience and Implications for New Zealand,
was delivered on 3 August 2004 at the
offices of Russell McVeagh, Wellington.
NZ $12.50
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Restoring Sanctity of Contract in Employment Relationships
1 November 1999, Richard A Epstein
I can think of two possible approaches to the general question of how to restore the sanctity of property and contract - a systematic exposition from first principles or a more autobiographical account. On this occasion, I will begin with some personal reflections. Thereafter, I shall adopt a more theoretical stance to analyse the key issues relating to the sanctity of property and contract from the perspective of one particular set of disputes - employment contracts. My primary focus will be on contracts involving relationships with unions. Only toward the end will I move on to more modern employment issues such as unjust dismissal laws. These topics raise many of the same problems encountered in dealing with unions, but present some new issues as well. Because I have already discussed the contract at will several times in New Zealand, on this occasion I do not wish to address that topic again directly, although, of necessity, it will figure in the larger discussion.
NZ $12.50
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Ideas About Labour Markets: the Last 100 Years and the Twenty-first Century: The 1999 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture
21 September 1999, Judith Sloan
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $12.50
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Age Discrimination and Employment Law
1 August 1999, Richard A Epstein
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $12.50
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Employment Law: Courts and Contracts
1 October 1996, Richard A Epstein
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $12.50
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The Employment Contracts Act and Unjustifiable Dismissal
1 August 1996, Charles W Baird
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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The Status and Jurisdiction of The New Zealand Employment Court
1 August 1996, Bernard Robertson
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $33.75
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Human Rights and Anti-discrimination Legislation
1 July 1996, Richard A Epstein
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $12.50
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Interpretation of the Employment Contracts Act 1991
1 December 1995, Colin Howard
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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Interpretation of the Employment Contracts Act 1991
1 December 1995, Colin Howard
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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Towards Full Employment in New Zealand
1 August 1994, Judith Sloan
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $33.75
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What Future for New Zealand's Minimum Wage Law?
1 June 1994, ACIL
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $33.75
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A Study of the Labour/Employment Court
1 December 1992, New Zealand Business Roundtable and New Zealand Employers Federation
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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Unemployment: Realities and Illusions
1 December 1990, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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Freedom at Work: The Case for Reforming Labour Law in New Zealand
1 November 1990, Penelope Brook
For society as a whole, good employment relationships promote productivity, innovation and economic growth. Penelope Brook argues that New Zealand's labour market laws as they evolved from the late nineteenth century turned workers and employers into adversaries and made victims of the very people they sought to protect. Dr Brook's solution is a labour law system that centres on freedom of association and contract and on the joint interests of firms and their employees in productive arrangements at the enterprise level.
NZ $44.50
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Employment Equity - Issues of Competition and Regulation
1 November 1990, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $33.75
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Starting a New Venture in New Zealand: A Case Study in Labour Relations
1 July 1990, Roderick Trott
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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Populate or Languish? Rethinking New Zealand's Immigration Policy
1 July 1990, Wolfgang Kasper
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $33.75
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Choice in the Workplace: A Better Framework for Labour Law
1 May 1990, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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The Pursuit of Fairness - A Critique of the Employment Equity Bill
1 February 1990, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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Tourism: What Incentives for Growth? A Study of Labour Issues Affecting the Outlook for Tourism - out of print
1 January 1990, New Zealand Business Roundtable in Association with New Zealand Tourist Industry Federation
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $33.75
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Industrial Democracy - A Case for Regulation or Deregulation?
1 May 1989, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $33.75
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Industrial Relations Issues in New Zealand - A Survey of Public Attitudes
1 December 1988, Insight New Zealand
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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Labour Markets and Employment - New Zealand Business Roundtable Statements on Labour Relations
1 March 1988, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $33.75
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Public Opinion Survey on Industrial Relations Issues
1 November 1987, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $11.25
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Freedom in Employment - Why New Zealand Needs a Flexible Decentralised Labour Market (no charge)
1 June 1987, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is no summary available for this publication.
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New Zealand Labour Market Reform
1 April 1986, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is no summary available for this publication.
NZ $22.50
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Submissions
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Submission on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill (No 2)
22 September 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Business Roundtable believes that New Zealand employment law has become unnecessarily complex and costly for both employers and employees. Contrary to common misconceptions, there is no inherent and systematic imbalance in bargaining power in the labour market. As a consequence we believe employment law should move in the direction of standard contract law.
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Submission on the Employment Relations Act 2000: Review of Part 6A: Continuity of Employment
30 March 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
In our view issues relating to Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act need to be
seen in the context of the government’s overriding goal of lifting average New Zealand
incomes to Australian levels by 2025. As the minister of labour notes in the foreword
to the Discussion Document, “The Government aims to put employment relations on
sound and solid footings so that New Zealand can focus on building more productive
businesses and higher wages.” To achieve that goal, major improvements in labour
productivity growth are required, given the slump in productivity growth resulting in
large part from ill-conceived policies of the previous government.
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Submission on the Department of Labour Discussion Paper 'Employment Relations Act 2000: Review of Part 9: Personal Grievances'
30 March 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
In our view, issues relating to Part 9 of the Employment Relations Act
2000 need to be seen in the context of the government’s overriding
goal of lifting average New Zealand incomes to Australian levels by
2025. To achieve that goal, major improvements in labour
productivity growth are required, given the staggering decline in
recent productivity growth rates with the ill-conceived policies of the
previous government. The Employment Relations Act (the ERA) was
one such policy.
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Holidays Act 2003 Review
12 August 2009, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable welcomes the review of the Holidays Act 2003 which is one of the most problematic areas of New Zealand employment law. We believe it needs to be substantially reformed on a first-principles basis. The starting point for the Review should be the government's primary economic goal of closing the per capita income gap between New Zealand and Australia by 2025
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Submission on the Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill
8 July 2006, New Zealand Business Roundtable
This submission was released on 3 August 2006.
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Submission on the Minimum Wage (Abolition of Age Discrimination) Amendment Bill
1 April 2006, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission on the Employment Relations Law Reform Bill
20 May 2004, NZBR
We have several specific concerns with the bill that are worth highlighting (see section 4 of the NZBR submission).
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Submission on Reducing Tax Barriers to International Recruitment
23 December 2003, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable supports government moves to reduce tax barriers to international recruitment, but would like to see more attention paid to keeping wealth-producing New Z
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Submission on the Holidays Bill and the Holidays (Four Weeks Annual Leave) Amendment Bill
10 July 2003, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission On The Status Of Redundancy Payments Bill
8 May 2003, New Zealand Business Roundtable
There are no obvious public policy grounds for the measures proposed in the bill. In terms of economic efficiency objectives - achieving the best use of economic resources and hence maximising community incomes - there appear to be no valid grounds for additional government intervention in this area
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Submission On The Health And Safety In Employment Amendment Bill
27 March 2002, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission On The Parental Leave And Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave) Amendment Bill
14 February 2002, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission on the 2000 Review of the Minimum Wage
1 October 2000, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission on the Employment Relations Bill
1 May 2000, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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The 1998 Review of the Statutory Minimum Wage
1 October 1998, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission On The Review Of The Holidays Act 1981
1 December 1997, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Annual Review Of The Minimum Wage
1 October 1997, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Review of the Statutory Minimum Wage
1 October 1996, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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New Zealand Council Of Trade Unions' Complaint to The International Labour Organisation on the Employment Contracts Act
1 July 1994, Colin Howard
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Submission to The Labour Select Committee on the Employment Contracts Bill
1 February 1991, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission to the Labour Select Committee on the Labour Relations Amendment Bill
1 June 1990, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission to the Committee Inquiring into Dependent Contracting
1 March 1988, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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The Regulation of Shop Trading Hours - Submission to the Shop Trading Hours Advisory Committee
1 December 1987, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Submission to the Labour Select Committee - The Labour Relations Bill
1 March 1987, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Articles
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Are Warnings About Minimum Wages Dickensian?
29 July 2011, Roger Kerr
A recent correspondent to the ODT wrote, “Reading Roger Kerr’s position on the minimum wage I am left wondering if he is a real person or a character from a Dickens novel.” I decided to regard the feedback as a challenge: how does one get across the potentially harmful effects of minimum wages to those who see them as self-evidently beneficial?
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Welfare Reform: Removing Barriers to Employment
24 June 2011, Roger Kerr
The government is evaluating the recommendations of the Welfare Working Group with a view to including welfare reform in its election manifesto. The group’s report, launched just before Canterbury’s February earthquake, has not yet had the attention it deserves. The 180-page report and its 43 recommendations take some digesting, but it’s worth the effort.
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Where Are The Jobs For Those On Benefits?
25 March 2011, Roger Kerr
When the Welfare Working Group’s report came out last month advocating more work-focused welfare arrangements, some critics asked, “Where are the jobs for beneficiaries to go to?”
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The Real Meaning of Welfare
25 February 2011, Roger Kerr, Otago Daily Times
While Christchurch’s tragedy has pushed the Welfare Working Group’s final report onto the back-burner, it is at such a time that a well-functioning welfare system is at its most needed and important.
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Hysteria About Employment Law: A 90 Day Wonder?
30 August 2010, Roger Kerr, the Dominion Post
Why are New Zealand unions so opposed to the government’s minor step of extending the current 90-day probation period for small firms to firms of all sizes? After all, a Department of Labour survey found the current rules were working well, with 40% of employers saying they were not likely to have made their last hire without the trial period.
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Figures Highlight New Zealand's Productivity Crisis
26 March 2010, Roger Kerr
Last week Statistics New Zealand delivered a damning verdict on the
economic stewardship of the Clark-Cullen government.
It released productivity data for the year to March 2009, effectively the last
year of that government’s term of office.
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Unemployment Returns as a National Scandal
12 February 2010, Roger Kerr
Last week’s unemployment numbers were not good news.
Contrary to expectations, the overall unemployment rate in the December quarter of 2009 jumped to 7.3% of the labour force. The Maori unemployment rate has doubled since the middle of last year to 15.4%.
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Minimum Wage Folly Bites
28 August 2009, Roger Kerr
The seriousness of our unemployment problem was highlighted by the labour force statistics for the June quarter. On a seasonally adjusted basis, the unemployment rate rose to 6% of the labour force, half as much again as in June 2008. Broader measures, such as the number of jobless, also rose sharply. The minister of finance, Bill English, warned that "unemployment is going to get worse before it gets better." The prime minister predicted that the unemployment rate would not rise above 8%, implying a further increase of up to one-third.
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Affirmative Action Through Free Choice
27 July 2009, Rob McLeod
A few years ago a colleague of mine visited a small tie-making factory inOtaki. It was run by a strong, community-spirited Maori woman who waskeen to help unemployed Maori into work, in particular mature, Maoriwomen currently on benefits. If she had advertised for a mature, Maoriwoman she may well have found herself in breach of the Human Rights Acton all three counts: age, race and gender.
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Jobs Summit a Platform for Progress
9 March 2009, Roger Kerr
There were no calls for more fiscal stimulus. Participants seemingly understood that the existing stimulus is large and that any further boost could put our credit rating at risk. This would raise the cost of borrowing for all New Zealand firms and households.
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Will the Jobs Summit be about Jobs?
2 February 2009, Roger Kerr
The key insights here are that long-term economic growth is mainly about growth in the productivity of economic resources (like labour and capital) whereas employment and unemployment are mainly about the flexibility with which labour resources are used.
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Job Probation: What Was All the Fuss About?
16 January 2009, Roger Kerr
Union claims that such measures "strip away worker protections" are Marxist class-welfare nonsense. What strips away worker protections is legislation that restricts competition or deprives workers of the freedom to supply their labour on the terms they prefer.
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Creating a High-Wage Economy
29 April 2008, Roger Kerr
Finance minister Michael Cullen has been urging employers to lift wages to close the wage gap with Australia and stem the exodus of workers across the Tasman.Why don't employers simply raise wages and stop the stampede?
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Still Plenty of Scope to Get People into Work
30 April 2007, Roger Kerr
This article was first published in the Otago Daily Times today.
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Maori Unemployment Still a Serious Problem
9 April 2006, Rob McLeod
This article was first published in the Dominion Post on 4 September 2006.
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Unjustified Dismissal Laws are Unjust
3 April 2006, Roger Kerr
Recently there has been an interesting coincidence of developments on so-called 'employment protection' legislation.
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Labour Markets Are Not Special
24 March 2006, Roger Kerr
Ideas have consequences. One body of ideas with wholly baleful consequences was the economics of Karl Marx.
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Full Employment: Not There Yet
18 November 2005, Roger Kerr
Last week Statistics New Zealand reported that the unemployment rate fell in the September quarter to 3.4 % of the labour force, a 24-year low.
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Clearing the Fog of Misinformation About Wages
16 June 2005, Roger Kerr
This article first appeared in the DominionPost on 13 June 2005
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ECA didn't make the sky fall in
8 March 2005, Richard Epstein
When the Employment Contracts Act of 1991 was passed, after extensive fanfare and debate, unions and some politicians suggested the sky would fall in on ordinary working-class people.
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Best efficiency gains flow from hands-off approach
1 March 2005, Richard Epstein
The single most important thing to understand about the operation of a standard labour market in the world today is that it is immensely boring.
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Competition Vital for Efficiency as Savings Debate Continues
19 November 2004, Roger Kerr
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Is the Labour Market Special?
1 March 2004, Roger Kerr
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Memo to Margaret Wilson: Please Engage
4 February 2004, Roger Kerr
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Employment Law Changes a Blast from the Past
30 January 2004, Roger Kerr
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Growth and Innovation: Yeah Right!
22 January 2004, Roger Kerr
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Time off a matter best left to workers, bosses
9 July 2003, Tony Carter
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New Zealand's slow slide to mediocrity
9 July 2003, Norman LaRocque
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ICT report lacks policy framework
2 December 2002, Roger Kerr
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Disclosure of Employee Remuneration
28 January 1993, Roger Kerr
A law is a blunt, costly and often unpredictable instrument. It should not be passed without satisfying at least three requirements - a clear identification of the mischief it is aimed at, confidence that it will address that mischief, and a belief that its benefits will exceed its costs. Ideally, all three should be the result of careful conceptual and empirical analysis.
The Companies Bill proposal for disclosure of employee remuneration fails on all three counts.
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Perspectives
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Issue 465 A “Training Wage” Can Get Teens Their First Job – And Jumpstart Their Earning Potential
16 June 2011, Christina Martin
Have you ever tried to hire an average teenager? A few years ago, when I needed some furniture moved, my mother reached out to some fundraising teenagers on my behalf, offering the wage that I had set. The three boys eagerly accepted the offer, showed up for work and proceeded to demonstrate why it can be so difficult for many teenagers to land and maintain employment.
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Issue 405 California Business Exodus Now Triple Last Year’s Rate
18 October 2010, Joseph Vranich
In executive coaching, there is a saying: "The problem you define is the one you solve." Based on what I've seen, California is in serious trouble because many people refuse to admit to one of our big problems - the flight of businesses, capital and jobs to other states and nations.
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Issue 401 Wage Laws Squeeze South Africa's Poor
1 October 2010, Celia W Dugger
In the 16 years since the end of apartheid, South Africa has followed the prescriptions of the West, opening its market-based economy to trade, while keeping inflation and public debt in check. It has won praise for its efforts, and the economy has grown, but not nearly fast enough to end an intractable unemployment crisis.
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Issue 395 Baking a Recipe for Migration
30 August 2010, Oliver Marc Hartwich
Next time you go to Sydney's Queen Victoria Building you should visit the basement. There, nestled between an accessories store and an Asian fast food outlet, you can learn a practical lesson in successful immigration policy. It can teach you all you need to know about why the integration of migrants is working in Australia and why it is failing in Europe.
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Issue 388 No Fault Dismissal – For Adults Only
4 August 2010, Grace Collier
Employment is a relationship; a very important one. We all spend a large part of our lives in the workplace. And as with all relationships, it is guaranteed to end. Whether through dismissal, resignation, redundancy or death, we will all one day be put out of our job. So it is with our marriages too, but when these end, we don’t demand our Government step in, examining in detail who said what and when, looking at evidence of misdemeanors and making a judgment on who is at fault and why.
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Issue 377 Don't Panic, it's only Prophecy
22 June 2010, Owen Harries
Today’s university graduates are going out into the world in less than optimistic circumstances, with not one but several predictions of doom hovering over their heads and the world at large. Among them are global warming, the collapse of capitalism, the prospect of more terrorism and further nuclear proliferation.
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Issue 371 Australian Firms are at the Bottom when it comes to Female Representation
31 May 2010, Judith Sloan
A QUARTER of a century ago, it was not really surprising that there was only a handful of female directors.
But fast forward those 25 years, the participation of women in the Australian labour force has surged -- with the participation rate of women increasing by nearly 13 percentage points while the participation rate of men fell. And the educational attainment of women has outpaced that of men.
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Issue 354 The Patsy Revolt of 2010
25 March 2010, Bill Bonner
Insurrection is in the air. In England, government employees are preparing the biggest strike since the ’80s. In America, dissatisfaction with Congress is at record highs; four out of five of those polled say, “Nothing can be accomplished in Washington.”
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Issue 352 The Scalia v. Stevens Smackdown
14 March 2010, Daniel Henninger
Nothing—not even George W. Bush—has sent liberaldom screaming into the streets more than the Supreme Court's recent 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The Court's ruling that corporations have a free-speech right to express opinions about politicians running for office really let the furies out.
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Issue 350 Why weren’t there Housing Bubbles Everywhere?
9 March 2010, Thomas Sowell
During bad times, the blame game is the biggest game in Washington. Wall Street "greed" or "predatory" lenders seem to be favorite targets to blame for our current economic woes.
When government policy is mentioned at all in handing out blame, it is usually blamed for not imposing enough regulation on the private sector. But there is still the question whether any of these explanations can stand up under scrutiny.
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Issue 338 The U.S Isn’t as Free as It Used to Be
22 January 2010, Terry Miller
The United States is losing ground to its major competitors in the global marketplace, according to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom released today by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. This year, of the world's 20 largest economies, the U.S. suffered the largest drop in overall economic freedom. Its score declined to 78 from 80.7 on the 0 to 100 Index scale.
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Issue 325 The Young and the Jobless
2 December 2009, WSJ Editorial
Earlier this year, economist David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine, wrote on these pages that the 70-cent-an-hour increase in the minimum wage would cost some 300,000 jobs. Sure enough, the mandated increase to $7.25 took effect in July, and right on cue the August and September jobless numbers confirm the rapid disappearance of jobs for teenagers.
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Issue 275 Delay the Minimum-Wage Hike
19 June 2009, David Neumark
Despite severe economic difficulties confronting businesses, and soaring unemployment among youths and minorities, the federal minimum wage is slated to increase to $7.25 in July from $6.55 today. This will be the final step of a three-step increase enacted in the spring 2007, when the unemployment rate was 4.5%.
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Issue 260 Minimum-Wage Freeze will Keep People in Jobs
29 April 2009, Mark Wooden
We are constantly being reminded, especially by our Prime Minister, that the world is now in the grip of the worst economic recession since the 1930s. We are told Australia cannot escape the global economic turmoil, but are then reassured that the government will do whatever "is necessary to support growth and jobs" (to quote Treasurer Wayne Swan).
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Issue 258 California’s ‘Green Jobs’ Experiment isn’t Going Well
22 April 2009, Stephen Moore
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was all smiles in 2006 when he signed into law the toughest anti-global-warming regulations of any state. Mr. Schwarzenegger and his green supporters boasted that the regulations would steer California into a prosperous era of green jobs, renewable energy, and technological leadership. Instead, since 2007 -- in anticipation of the new mandates -- California has led the nation in job losses.
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Issue 85, Pay Bosses More!
5 March 2007, Jerry Taylor and Jagadeesh Gokhale
This article was first published in the Wall Street Journal online.
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Issue 78, A Glimmer of Hope
15 September 2006, Thomas Sowell
There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.
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Productivity and the Employment Contracts Act: facts and interpretations
5 October 1996, Roger Kerr
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Bargaining Under the Employment Contracts Act 1991
25 August 1995, Roger Kerr
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The Employment Contracts Bill
15 April 1991, Roger Kerr
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The Economics of the Growth Agreement
25 October 1990, Roger Kerr
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Media Releases
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Labour Productivity Growth Grinds to a Halt
16 July 2007, New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The deterioration in New Zealand's productivity growth performance in recent years looks likely to have continued in the year ended March 2007", Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Imposing Increased Pay Rates on Fishing Industry Unjustified
10 June 2006, Roger Kerr
"The government's plan to impose increased pay rates on foreign chartered fishing vessels makes no economic sense", Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
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Employment Law Based on a Fallacy
20 March 2006, New Zealand Business Roundtable
The idea that there is a systematic imbalance of bargaining power between employers and employees is refuted in the latest study published by the New Zealand Business Roundtable.
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Mapp Bill Would Promote Job Creation and Innovation
8 March 2006, New Zealand Business Roundtable
Releasing the New Zealand Business Roundtable's submission on MP Wayne Mapp's Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill, executive director Roger Kerr said opposition to it was "scaremongering".
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Australia Steals Another March on New Zealand
27 May 2005, New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The Australian government has (almost) had the good sense to recognise that mandatory unfair dismissal laws are bad for firms and workers alike", Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable said today.
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Affirmative Action: The US Experience and Implications for New Zealand
20 April 2005, New Zealand Business Roundtable
Affirmative action programmes may make good sense for commercial or social purposes, but decisions about them should be made by firms or institutions in a decentralised way.
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E-Connects
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Milton Friedman on Steel Tariffs and Trade in 1978
1 February 2010, Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman gives a concise and lucid argument for free trade at Utah State University in 1978.
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Economics 101 on "Moral Hazard"
11 January 2010, Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation
A new video released by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation is the first in their "Economics 101" video series, a project designed to educate students, young people, and the general public about basic free market principles. This first video deals with the concept of "Moral Hazard."
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