Nathan Chappell
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View article: Using a Randomised Controlled Trial to Test the Effectiveness of a Simplified Notice of Police Bail
Using a Randomised Controlled Trial to Test the Effectiveness of a Simplified Notice of Police Bail Open
Purpose To test whether a simplified notice of police bail can increase court attendance in New Zealand by increasing defendant awareness of upcoming court hearings. Methods We designed a simplified notice of police bail using principles f…
View article: The effect of trial periods in employment on firm hiring behavior
The effect of trial periods in employment on firm hiring behavior Open
Recent changes in New Zealand law decreased the cost of dismissing employees within their first 3 months with an employer, with the aim of encouraging firms to increase hiring by reducing the associated risk. We use monthly linked employer…
View article: Worker Flows, Entry and Productivity in the New Zealand Construction Industry
Worker Flows, Entry and Productivity in the New Zealand Construction Industry Open
The 21st century global decline in productivity growth is not well understood.One possible contributor is a decline in economic dynamism.We explore the contribution of firm formation and employee movement to productivity using administrati…
View article: Intangible Investment and Firm Performance
Intangible Investment and Firm Performance Open
We combine survey and administrative data for about 13,000 firms from 2005 to 2013 to study the inter-relationships among firm characteristics, intangible investment and firm performance. We find that firm size is associated with higher in…
View article: Is internet on the right track? The digital divide, path dependence, and the rollout of New Zealand’s ultra-fast broadband
Is internet on the right track? The digital divide, path dependence, and the rollout of New Zealand’s ultra-fast broadband Open
data on internet access for New Zealand’s 46,637 meshblocks, we examine issues of path dependence and the digital divide. We test whether areas that had the best railway access in the 1880s also have best access to new fibre internet infra…
View article: Productivity and the Allocation of Skills
Productivity and the Allocation of Skills Open
We use linked employer-employee data from 20042012, combined with individual qualifications data from 19942012, to study how graduates with different skills fare in the labour market in the six years after studying. We find that graduate…
View article: Productivity distribution and drivers of productivity growth in the construction sector
Productivity distribution and drivers of productivity growth in the construction sector Open
This study draws on firm-level data from the Longitudinal Business Database to examine productivity in the New Zealand construction industry. It finds that over the period 2001–2012, on average labour productivity in this industry grew by …