The New Zealand Work Research Institute provides high quality research across a broad multidisciplinary programme concerned with people and work.


Jarrod Haar appointed to Marsden Fund Council

Business School Professor and Deputy Direct of the NZ Work Research Institute, Jarrod Haar joins a new cohort of prominent academics appointed to the Marsden Fund Council by Research, Science and Innovation Minister Hon Dr Megan Woods.


Is your job hurting your mental health?

Professor Helena Cooper-Thomas talks about whether people are more stressed by work than they were in the past, signs of stress, and how to deal with it. Part of the summer podcast series.


Seminar Series: Persistence in Low Pay Employment

This seminar will illustrate heterogeneity in low pay persistence and the necessity to control for the intensity of low pay attachment.


Newsletter

February 2018 |  Issue 26


Low pay in New Zealand

MBIE commissioned this research to better understand the low pay sector within New Zealand, and the changing nature of this group in recent years.


Welfare system needs radical shake up

After nine years of National's so-called welfare reform, there is a certain irony in the fact that one of the most urgent tasks facing the new Government is welfare reform. The lesson is that welfare is for us all. It is not the "us-and-them" thing National would have had us believe.

UN Women's Empowerment Principles Survey

2017 Survey Results

 

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