Presentations
Our institute members are very active in sharing their research findings and outputs. Find a selection of our presentations below.
2019
34th Annual Congress of the European Economics Association - 26-30 August 2019
Seminar at Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg - 23 August 2019
- Using randomly assigned normally distributed draws for estimating Maximum Simulated Likelihood – Alexander Plum
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 – Dr Mario andres Fernandez
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 – Dr Christopher Erwin
Wage Effects of Baccalaureate time to Degree in the United States – 14 March 2019
- Copy of presentation – Dr Christopher Erwin
Productivity of Housing Construction –14 February 2019
- Copy of presentation – Dr Nan Jiang
Previous years
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
Other reports
Our document library holds reports for surveys, projects, presentations and Big Data. Working papers are also released here regularly.