Presentations

Global Mobility: Experiences of Filipino Nurses in Iceland – 8 November 2018

• Copy of presentation – Dr Erla S. Kristjánsdóttir, University of Iceland

The measurement of in-work poverty and why it matters – 23 October 2018

• Copy of presentation – Rod Hick, Cardiff University

Applied Econometric Workshop – 19 October 2018

• Earnings Volatility: Within-Year Variation of Wages and Non-Employment Spells – Melanie Borah (OvGU), Kabir Dasgupta, Gail Pacheco and Alexander Plum
• Win, lose, or draw? Student responses to lottery scholarship eligibility rules - Christopher Erwin

When there is no way up: Reconsidering low-paid jobs as stepping stones – September 2018

• Copy of presentation, presented at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany) – Gail Pacheco and Alexander Plum
• Institute presentation - Alexander Plum

Reconsidering low-pay jobs as stepping stones – 24 September 2018

• Copy of presentation – Gail Pacheco and Alexander Plum

Barriers to Participation - 13 September 2018

• Symposium programme
• Video interview -  Director General Oonagh Buckley, Workplace Relations Commission, Ireland
• Video interview -  Commissioner Tim Lee, Fair Work Commission, Australia
• Noted themes and issues from symposium- collected and edited by Dr Gaye Greenwood and Professor Erling Rasmussen
• Introductory remarks - Chief Judge Inglis, Employment Court
• Presentation - Darryn Aitchison, Community Law Centre
• Presentation - Jayne McKendry, Citizens Advice Bureau
• Presentation - Oliver Christeller and Mikee Santos, UNEMIG and FIRST Union
• Presentation and speech - Peter Franks, Employment Mediator, MBIE & Research Associate, NZWRI
• Presentation - Erling Rasmussen, AUT

European Association of Labour Economists – 13-15 September 2018

• When there is no way up: Reconsidering low-paid jobs as stepping stones (Poster) – Gail Pacheco and Alexander Plum

Pay equity – where are we now? – 15 August 2018

• Closing the gender pay gap – Anna MacLean and Natasha Lewis, Ministry for Women
• Gender pay gap research – Gail Pacheco, NZ Work Research Institute

NZ Association of Economists Conference – 27-29 June 2018

• Effect of 20 hours early childhood education on women’s labor market outcomes in New Zealand – Lydia Cheung, Gail Pacheco and Isabelle Bouchard
• Persistence of low pay employment – Alexander Plum and Gail Pacheco
• Parenthood and labour market outcomes – Isabelle Sin, Gail Pacheco and Kabir Dasgupta
• The impact of maternal smoking during pregnancy on risks of obesity among pre-schoolers – Kabir Dasgupta, Keshar Ghimire and Gail Pacheco
• Earnings Volatility – Alexander Plum, Gail Pacheco, Malanie Borah and Kabir Dasgupta
• Residential movement within NZ: quantifying and characterising the transient population – Nan Jiang, Gail Pacheco and Kabir Dasgupta
• Land use regulation, the redevelopment premium and house prices – Ryan Greenaway-Mcgrevy, Gail Pacheco and Kade Sorensen
• Merit aid scholarships and human capital production in STEM: Evidence from New Mexico – Christopher Erwin

Living Standards Framework – A sustainable approach to business – 26 June 2018

• Update on Treasury’s Living Standards Framework – Suzy Morrissey, Treasury
• Business – Human Capital – Christine Brotherton, Perpetual Guardian
• Business – Natural Capital – Karen Fistonich, Villa Maria
• Research – Natural Capital – David Hall, AUT

Deconstructing the Digital Divide – 28 May 2018

• Copy of presentation – Angsana Techatassanasoontorn and Antonio Díaz Andrade

Persistence of Low Pay Employment – 16 March 2018

• Copy of presentation – Alexander Plum and Gail Pacheco

Western Economic Association, 14th International Conference – 12-13 January 2018

• Evaluating the Impact of Mothers' Self-esteem on Early Childhood Home Environment – Tirthatnmoy Das and Kabir Dasgupta
• Reconceptualizing Firm-Level Productivity Data – Don Webber and Gail Pacheco

The Gender Pay Gap: Evidence in New Zealand and Implications for us all – 10 October 2017

• Empirical evidence of the gender pay gap in NZ – Gail Pacheco, Chao Li, and Bill Cochane

Wellbeing and Performance: Which one came first? – 6 September 2017

• Understanding the effects of Intra-Group Conflict: A Wellbeing Approach – Gaye Greenwood and Jarrod Haar
• Wellbeing and performance – how can newcomers help themselves? – Sofia Garcia, Helena Cooper-Thomas, and Matthias Stadler
• What roles do HR Practices play in the Employee Wellbeing? Testing a Mediation Model on New Zealand Employees – Jarrod Haar and Candice Harris
• Making the best of it: An open plan space workers actually like – Rachel Morrison and Roy Smollan
• How can public policy contribute to improved performance in employment and to an increase in the Four Capitals? – Suzy Morrissey
• Older women: Employment challenges and Wellbeing later in life – Barbara Myers

Business History as a Platform for Progress – 11 August 2017

• From Cinderella to Nigella: a short history of employment relations and food in New Zealand tourist hotels – David Williamson
• Perfect Storm, Serendipity or a Brief Reprieve: The localised impacts of a decline in coal mining, global oil crisis. "Think Big", and the development of New Zealand’s largest power station – Fiona Hurd
• The Economists and New Zealand Population: Problems and Policies 1900–1980s – Geoffrey Brooke, Anthony Endres, and Alan Rogers
• Was the development of relational marketing a post-war phenomenon? Evidence from history – Simon Mowatt

New Zealand Association of Economics Conference – 14 July 2017

• Warrantless Arrest Laws for Domestic Violence: How are Youth Affected? – Kabir Dasgupta and Gail Pacheco
• Empirical evidence of the gender pay gap in NZ – Gail Pacheco, Chao Li, and Bill Cochrane

The Future of Work – June/July 2017

• How do employees feel about the 4th industrial revolution? – Jarrod Haar
• The Future of Work: What will employment look like in the future? – Jarrod Haar
• The Future of Work: Is todays HR ready for tomorrow's economy – Jarrod Haar
• “I get by with a little help from my friends…especially if they have good work-life balance!” – Jarrod Haar
• Bouncing Back from Adversity: Exploring an Organisational Resilience Psychological Climate in New Zealand – Jarrod Haar

Western Economics Association Conference – 28 June 2017

• Explaining ethnic disparities in bachelor's qualifications: Participation, retention, and completion in NZ – Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco, and Zoe Pushon
• The impact of child welfare legislation on domestic violence-related homicide rates – Gail Pacheco and Kabir Dasgupta

Y-NEET: Empirical Evidence for New Zealand – 1 March 2017

In 2016 the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation commissioned the New Zealand Work Research Institute at AUT to undertake a study to provide a comprehensive profile of the Y-NEET landscape in NZ, to examine how NZ compares internationally, and quantify the costs of this economic and social issue.
This video summarises finding from the research.

Empirical Evidence AUT Workshop – 23-24 February 2017

• Family Size Effects on Child Health: Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off using the NLSY – Kabir Dasgupta and Keisha Solomon

8th ANZOPOB Conference - 29 November 2019

• Programme

In-Work Poverty Seminar (Wellington) - 26 November 2019

• Copy of presentation - Gail Pacheco and Alexander Plum

In-Work Poverty Launch (Human Rights Commission, Auckland) - 25 November 2019

• Copy of presentation - Gail Pacheco and Alexander Plum

Southern Economics Association 89th Annual Meetings (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - 23-25 November 2019

• Children’s health insurance benefit and fertility: Evidence from the State Children’s Health Insurance Program - Kabir Dasgupta
• Stationarity in Labor-Income Process and State Dependence in Low Pay – Kabir Dasgupta

AAHANZBS 11th Annual Conference - 6 November 2019

• Institutions and Change - John Singleton as keynote speaker

• Job-to-job transitions and the regional job ladder - Guanyu Zheng (Fish)

Labour Econometrics Workshop (Victoria University of Wellington) - 25 October 2019

• Performance-based aid, enhanced advising, and the income gap in college graduation: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial – Christopher Erwin

Gender Gaps - 14 October 2019

• The evolution of gender gaps in numeracy and literacy between childhood and young adulthood - Marco Paccagnella

Seminar at University of Otago  - 20 September 2019

• The Effect of Interest Rate Caps on Bankruptcy: Synthetic Control Evidence from Recent Payday Lending Bans – Kabir Dasgupta

34th Annual Congress of the European Economics Association - 26-30 August 2019

• When there is no way up: Reconsidering low-paid jobs as stepping stones – Alexander Plum

Seminar at Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg - 23 August 2019

• Using randomly assigned normally distributed draws for estimating Maximum Simulated Likelihood – Alexander Plum

Religion and Business - 12 August 2019

• Reaping the Diversity Dividend - Edwina Pio, Joseph Bulbulia, Paul Morris, Doug Pratt and Alan Wilcox

Australian Conference of Economists - 14-16 July 2019

• How can economics inform social policy? – Gail Pacheco

6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference - 8-10 July 2019

• Repurposing Equal Pay Legislation: The Landmark New Zealand Case – Pam Nuttall
• 'Regularising' home and community aged care work: a case study of New Zealand regulatory changes - Julie Douglas and Katherine Ravenswood
• See the corresponding report

New Zealand Association of Economists Conference - 3-5 July 2019

• Stationarity in Labor-Income Process and State Dependence in Low Pay – Alexander Plum and Kabir Dasgupta
• A Policy Evaluation of Home Detention Sentencing: Evidence from New Zealand – Livvy Mitchell
• Estimating intergenerational income mobility in New Zealand - Leon Iusitini
• Party foul? Effects of the Minimum Legal Drinking Age on Late Adolescent Crime in New Zealand - Christopher Erwin, Kabir Dasgupta, Alexander Plum and Gail Pacheco

Barriers to participation: what would make a difference and would it work? – 22 May 2019

• Introductory remarks of Chief Judge Christina Inglis
• Programme
• Introduction and recap from 2018 symposium – Jayne McKendry, Citizens Advice Bureau
• Themes from 2018 symposium – Erling Rasmussen and Robin Arthur
• Reprising Themes presentation – Robin Arthur, Employment Relations Authority
• Access to Justice presentation – Justice Miller, Court of Appeal
• What works? How do we know? Lessons from the field – Bridgette Toy-Cronin

Price Effects of Special Housing Areas in Auckland – 2 May 2019

• Copy of presentation – Mario Andres Fernandez

Heritage Talk – 24 April 2019

• Spice it up with Edwina Pio - Edwina Pio

Effect of interest caps on bankruptcy – 12 April 2019

• The effect of interest caps on bankruptcy: Synthetic control evidence from recent payday lending bans - Kabir Dasgupta

Building the Connections Between Research and Policy – 21-23 March 2019

• 44th Annual Conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy
• Low-performing Student Responses to State Merit Scholarships – Christopher Erwin

Wage Effects of Baccalaureate time to Degree in the United States – 14 March 2019

• Copy of presentation – Christopher Erwin

Employment Relations Seminar and Discussion –19 February 2019

• Programme – John W. Budd

Productivity of Housing Construction –14 February 2019

• Copy of presentation – Nan Jiang

APPAM 42nd Annual Fall Research Conference - 11 November 2020

• The Devil’s in the Details: Identifying the Link between Access to Alcohol and Criminal Behavior - Kabir Dasgupta, Christopher Erwin and Alexander Plum

AUT School of Economics Seminar - 6 November 2020

• Labour Market Dynamics and the Role of Testosterone - Alexander Plum

The University of Wollongong Presentation - 6 November 2020

• Capping problem gambling: The effectiveness of sinking lid policies in harm reduction - Christopher Erwin, Gail Pacheco and Alexandra Turcu

AUT School of Economics Seminar - 22 October 2020

• Examining selected policy issues in NZ via the application of quasi-experimental methods linked to administrative data - Lisa Meehan

NZWRI Seminar Series - 17 September 2020

• The Overlap between criminal and victims of crime - Christopher Erwin

AUT School of Economics Seminar - 4 September 2020

• Time to Let Go of the Past! Effect of Clean Slate Scheme on Employment and Earnings - Kabir Dasgupta and Alexander Plum

Carework Webinar Series - 1 September 2020

• Care work, COVID and gender inequality - Sharan Burrow, Kirsty McCully and Natalie Lang

AUT School of Economics Seminar - 28 August 2020

• Human capital formation and state dependence in low pay - Kabir Dasgupta and Alexander Plum

Future Workforce

• Copy of presentation -  Gail Pacheco

AAPAM 2020 International conference (Toronto) - 24 July 2020

• From party time to time served: legal access to alcohol and adolescent criminal behavior - Christopher Erwin, Kabir Dasgupta and Alexander Plum

NZWRI Seminar Series (AUT) - 23 July 2020

• Estimating intergenerational income mobility in New Zealand using data from a birth cohort study - Leon Iutisin

EALE/SOLE/AASLE World Conference 2020 – 26 June 2020

• Do you really want to share everything? The Wellbeing of work-linked couples - Juliane Hennecke and Clemens Hetschko
• Performance-based aid, enhanced advising, and the income gap in college graduation: evidence from a randomized controlled trial - Christopher Erwin, Melissa Binder, Cynthia Miller and Kate Krauss
• How does low-pay persistence change with age? - Kabir Dasgupta and Alexander Plum

Humankind's future of work panel discussion: flexible working – 23 June 2020

• Copy of presentation - Jarrod Haar

SOEP Brown-Bag Seminar – 12 June 2020

• Suddenly a Stay-At-Home Dad: The Effect of Job Loss on Fathers' Time Investment in the Household - Juliane Hennecke and Astrid Pape

NZWRI Seminar Series (AUT) - 21 May 2020

• The Devil’s in the Details: Identifying the Link between Access to Alcohol and Criminal Behavior - Kabir Dasgupta, Christopher Erwin and Alexander Plum

What makes a successful HRC application? - 16 April 2020

• Copy of presentation - Mary Hedges

1st Virtual Workshop on Applied Microeconomics - 16 April 2020

• Capping problem gambling in NZ: The effectiveness of local government policy intervention - Christopher Erwin, Alexandra Turcu and Gail Pacheco
• Does Unemployment Make Better Fathers? The Effect of Job Loss on Fathers’ Time Investment in the Household - Juliane Hennecke and Astrid Pape

NZWRI Seminar Series (AUT) - 18 March 2020

• Does Unemployment Make Better Fathers? The Effect of Job Loss on Fathers’ Time Investment in the Household - Juliane Hennecke and Astrid Pape

Economics Department Research Seminar (University of Otago) – 6 March 2020

• Drinking is different! Examining the relationship between personality trait locus of control and alcohol consumption - Juliane Hennecke and Marco Caliendo

Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety – 21 February 2020

• Livestream video link - Katherine Ravenswood
• Written submissions - Katherine Ravenswood

Australian Gender Economics Workshop (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) - 5 February 2020

• The Independent Woman - Locus of Control and Female Labor Force Participation - Juliane Hennecke