Research released today by the Productivity Commission shows how New Zealanders have experienced big...
Technology adoption supports higher productivity growth, higher income growth and increased resource...
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Ideas and debates supporting the Technological change and future of work inquiry.
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How a country’s labour market performs has a huge bearing on its overall productivity and wellbeing.
The Government has asked the Productivity Commission to examine and report on Technological change, ...
Last week, Stats NZ released its latest annual set of productivity statistics.
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The State Services Commission has conducted an inquiry into the use of external security consultants...
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Can technologies be as disruptive to models of production as earlier industrial revolutions?
Over the last 40 years, New Zealanders – and people in other countries – have experienced big change...
In Berkeley, California last week I met the Kiwibots – a tribe of 4-wheeled robots about the size of...
If you’ve read anything about technological change and the future of work – or even if you’ve just G...
Answer: When it’s a childcare subsidy available to other low-income households.
Young people have a strong belief that technology will shape their future but what types of skills a...
I love the bold and colourful marae at Te Papa Tongarewa. The space is made up of a marae ātea (plac...
Fears of social problems accompany any new technology. Not just new problems, as technology can re-i...
What do secondary school students think work will look like in 2030? Flying cars, genetically modifi...
This is a slide from Professor Richard Baldwin’s presentation about his new book The Globotics Uphea...
Is this the reason why New Zealand doesn’t feature more prominently on global business and investmen...
Does gig work on digital platforms have a gender pay gap? The more flexible work options enabled by ...
Have you ever done a MOOC? After completing four separate degrees and ten years at university, you w...
There are two “expert” messages about the impact of the digital revolution on work that are hard to ...
The first of the Productivity Commission’s reports on technological change and the future of work is...
As a small country that’s far away from most of the world, it’s not surprising that many have worrie...
Many, many things affect whether a firm will adopt a technology, and whether this adoption will be s...
Can you ‘infect’ someone with digital skills? It may sound like an odd question but let me explain… ...
Forty-five percent of people who don’t use the internet say they have no interest in the internet or...
Why is the Productivity Commission interested in the digital divide? Our terms of reference ask us h...
A decline in the labour income share (LIS) is not definitive evidence of capital replacing human lab...
There’s a long lag between invention and any labour market effects from the mass adoption of technol...
Freezing 500 tonnes of vegetables a day, most days of the year. That makes for a significant manufac...
As the opening chords of Country Calendar play, feel-good nostalgia for rural New Zealand washes ove...
Technological progress need not eliminate jobs; automation can allow new and expanded worthwhile act...
How well does NZ support people who face job loss? I feel fortunate. In my working life – 3 ½ yea...
Online matchmaking has radically changed the way people search for love.
Accelerating or decelerating? Just about all the media commentary about the future of work says that...
It’s always a big day for the Productivity Commission when the Government announces its response to ...
Robots are going to take our jobs, right? Well, maybe. The available evidence provides conflicting ...
Denmark is a lot like us. A small country and with an open economy and lots of fiords and sounds.
The 50th anniversary of the moon landings got me thinking about 1960s tech and work.
Skills scarcity is great. At least when it’s your skills in demand.
Training is an investment in “embodied human capital” – assets stored in workers’ heads.
New tech. A traditional local industry.
The nice thing about forecasts is that you have so many to choose from.
The converging roles of men and women are among the grandest advances in society and the economy in ...
There’s an old joke about an economist searching for their keys under a street lamp.
Why don’t people move as often as economists expect? Some regions in New Zealand have much higher ...
The right job in the wrong place. For many, that’s the reality of job search in New Zealand’s less p...
Regardless of the technology hype, we’re in a productivity slump worldwide.
“Machines take jobs” cry the headlines. A journalist friend once said the media only publish two sto...
Can automation tech keep improving at the current rate? First, how good is today’s AI-enabled soft...
Biotech. Nanotech. Cleantech. Gene tech. Cloud computing tech. Successive waves of technological cha...
I only know one economist joke. A plane carrying economists plummets towards the ground after its en...
Flexible land-use planning complements a complex, dynamic and unpredictable employment environment. ...
career (v) move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
Can New Zealand choose its own future of work? The submissions and feedback the inquiry has received...
Technology is an irresistible force, emerging from inventors and relentlessly changing the nature of...
Prices affect firm decisions. Government policy affects prices, and in doing so indirectly affects t...
Necessity is the mother of invention if camping without tent pegs, according to Kinley Salmon in his...
GirlBoss NZ urges us to take a strong gender perspective in our inquiry.
Are fast rates of re-employment always a good thing? New Zealand’s incidence of long-term unemployme...
It is hard to find a discussion about the future of work without some reference to the emergence of ...
Many people worry about the impact of new and emerging technologies like robots and artificial intel...
Predicting technology is the first step towards predicting the labour market impacts of technology. ...
The US–China trade war is in the news again.
This graphic caught my eye. It accompanies the article Robots and Us in today’s Otago Daily Times.
