Economic outcomes in New Zealand: a varieties of capitalism lens

Nicholls, Kate

doi:10.1080/10361146.2017.1416581

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“…labour laws) that affect the "relative power resources" of the parties to employment relationships (Green et al, 2015, p.7). In terms of its national institutions, New Zealand is a Westminster-style democracy fitting the broad pattern of a liberal-market economy (LME) (Nicholls, 2018). In LMEs, there is greater reliance on markets to control economic activity and a less constrained approach to regulating the labour market (Hall & Soskice, 2001).…”

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How good are jobs in New Zealand?

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Huo

2021

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Based on an analysis of the New Zealand data in the Work Orientation module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) across three rounds (1997, 2005 and 2015), this paper examines how workers in New Zealand perceive their job quality. These surveys imply that New Zealanders have relatively good jobs, as shown in healthy levels of job quality and job satisfaction. They rate highly the quality of their collegial relationships at work and typically perceive the intrinsic quality of their job as better than the extrinsic quality. A key issue in relation to the latter is that they generally do not rate their advancement opportunities as high. While men, full-timers and graduates have some advantages over women, part-timers and non-graduates in extrinsic job quality, the intrinsic quality of work is more evenly experienced. In terms of intrinsic issues, the rising level of stress from 2005 to 2015 poses a concern and there is no evidence that graduates enjoy any kind of premium in the intrinsic quality of work apart from a lower level of hard physical effort.

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2021

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“…The effect of distance on firms' performance when entering, operating, and orchestrating business in and across foreign markets is broadly considered negative and more pronounced with increasing distance. In the political economy literature, the focus has been more along the lines of institutional distance and business systems differences (Hall and Gingerich, 2009;Hotho, 2009) and NZ's island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean is characterised as a free-market 'liberal market economy' (LME) (Nicholls, 2018). Despite institutional distance measures similar to the UK, the US, and European economies, and particularly the notion of a 'happy variety of capitalisms' (Bergheim, 2007), whereby health and well-being is now at the heart of a NZ governmental policy agenda (OECD, 2019), the key trading partners in 2019 were -using a continental lens -Asian countries, led by China with fellow Oceanian countries, particularly Australia, North America, and European countries.…”

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Management Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis

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“…The focus of this study is the relationship between political orientation and environmental views in New Zealand, a country which has (compared with other developed nations) low population density, a strong agricultural sector and a history of governments adopting market-oriented policies (Nicholls, 2018). These factors contribute to a unique environmental and political context.…”

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The dimensions of public opinion on climate change: belief, issue salience and support for government action

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Climate change is a problem that requires urgent attention. In most countries, large sections of the population accept that climate change is happening and that it is a serious problem. Despite this, the political response in many developed nations has so far been inadequate, and emissions continue to climb globally. Some authors have used this apparent lack of policy responsiveness to public preferences as evidence that vested interests have excessive influence over climate change policy. But this perspective does not fully account for the complexity of climate change opinion. For instance, many people who are highly concerned about climate change rank it as a low priority issue compared with issues such as the economy, healthcare and education. Moreover, some people who believe that climate change is happening and is a serious problem do not support government action to address it. I therefore investigate public opinion on climate change in terms of three dimensions: belief, issue salience and support for government action. Focussing on developed countries, I rely on survey data from Eurobarometer, the New Zealand Election Study and data collected as part of this research project. I investigate the nature of opinions with respect to these three dimensions and examine how opinions vary between individuals and across countries. Furthermore, I investigate the forces that shape climate opinion on these three dimensions, including external influence (such as messages from interest groups), individual characteristics (such as social and political attitudes) and country-level factors (such as country wealth). I find that belief is high in most developed countries, as is support for government action. However, salience is low in most countries, particularly in the less wealthy developed countries. Political orientation and other social attitudes relate positively to belief, issue salience and support for government action, although the relationships tend to be stronger for salience. By investigating the factors that shape climate opinion in different dimensions, this study contributes to knowledge of why people hold particular climate views. Moreover, my examination of the complexity of public opinion on climate change in terms of belief, issue salience and support for government action sheds light on why the political response to climate change has been ineffective in many countries.

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Economic outcomes in New Zealand: a varieties of capitalism lens

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The dimensions of public opinion on climate change: belief, issue salience and support for government action

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