23 June 2015

MEDIA STATEMENT

Immediate Release

New Working Papers on Economic, Fiscal, Trade and Social Issues

The Treasury published six new Working Papers today, covering analysis of investment behaviour, inequality, the impact of sentencing, tertiary study, exchange rate fluctuations, and New Zealand’s fiscal balance.

The new Working Papers are:

• The Impact of Sentencing on Adult Offenders' Future Employment and Re-offending – Community Work Versus Fines (WP 15/04), by Michele Morris and Charles Sullivan

• The Impact of Tax Changes on the Short-run Investment Behaviour of New Zealand Firms, by Richard Fabling (WP 15/05), Richard Kneller and Lynda Sanderson

• Inequality in New Zealand 1983/84 to 2013/14 (WP 15/06), by Christopher Ball and John Creedy

• The Impact of Tertiary Study on the Labour Market Outcomes of Low-qualified School Leavers (WP 15/07), by Sarah Tumen, Sarah Crichton and Sylvia Dixon

• Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Margins of Exports (WP 15/08), by Richard Fabling and Lynda Sanderson

• Estimating the Cyclically- and Absorption-adjusted Fiscal Balance for New Zealand (WP 15/09), by Miles Workman

These Working Papers can be viewed on the Treasury website at http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/research-policy/wp.

The views, opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in Treasury Working Papers are strictly those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the New Zealand Treasury or the New Zealand Government.

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